World Hunger Quotes - Page 2

• Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

  Norman Borlaug

  Guiding Principles, Gmos, Justice

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

  Norman Borlaug

  Justice, Essentials, Adequate

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.

  Walden Bello

  Children, Hunger And Poverty, Land

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• One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.

  Jeff Bridges

  Differences, Knowing, America

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• The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

  Walden Bello

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, People

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• America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

  Pierce Brosnan

  America, Childhood, Ending Hunger

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• Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger only through the wonderful work of local charities. Like other Western democracies, we must end our national problem of hunger through national and political leadership. Charity is nice for some things, but not as a way to feed a nation. We don't protect our national security through charity, and we shouldn't protect our families and children that way either.

  Jeff Bridges

  Children, Nice, Inspiration

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• In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, Children, School

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• Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

  George McGovern

  Country, Brother, Responsibility

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• The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, Joy, Humanity

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• People don't see hunger in front of them so they are not directly affected. What I am doing is connecting young people to the issue

  Lauren Bush

  Issues, People, Youth

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• UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.

  Jane Curtin

  Mother, Dream, Children

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• At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Men, House

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

  Penelope Cruz

  Dying, Needs, Hunger

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• Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, Freedom

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph Bunche's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Country, Future, Vision

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• A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Food Banks, Poverty

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• School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child, this program changes lives - and ultimately can impact the futures of poor countries around the world in a profound way.

  Drew Barrymore

  Country, Children, Life Changing

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• School feeding is a great tool to encourage education and provide food aid to children born into extremely impoverished situations. The kids in school being fed by WFP are empowered by their school meal to learn and better their lives!

  Lauren Bush

  Children, School, Kids

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• Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles.

  Drew Barrymore

  Children, School, Simple

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• I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.

  Drew Barrymore

  Children, Thinking, Issues

  "Actress Drew Barrymore Becomes Advocate for UN World Food Programme". www.un.org. May 09, 2007.

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• When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

  Giovannino Guareschi

  Thank You, Dog, Giving

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• I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Country, Children

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• Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Justice, Hatred

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• I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge
  to reduce hunger and poverty.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Knowledge, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

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