Hunger "Quotes"
From Your Favorite Historical Figures
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”
-Mother Teresa
“A hungry man is not a free man.”
-Adlai Stevenson
“Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.”
-Harry Chapin
"Never Doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world. They are the only people who ever have.”
-Margaret Mead
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
-Charles Dickens
“Must hunger become anger and anger fury before anything will be done?”
-John Steinbeck
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
-Gandhi
“You have to be well-fed to be a conservationist.”
-Richard Leakey
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
-Muhammad Ali
“Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those throughout the world who live and die in poverty or hunger."
-anonymous
"Give them, through our hands, this day their daily bread; and by our understanding love, give peace and joy. Amen.”
-Mother Teresa
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don’t have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernutrition can do it.”
-Carl Sagan
“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 on the day of that great revolution.”
-Federico Garcia Lorca (Spanish poet and dramatist)
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
-John F. Kennedy
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”
-Jonathan Kozol
“We must act together,
as a united people . . .
For the birth of a new world.
Let there be justice for all.
Let there be peace for all.
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.”
-Patricia Young (National Coordinator, World Food Day)
“. . . When you sit in council, think not of yourselves nor even of your generation. Think of those yet unborn, even unto the seventh generation, making all decisions with those generations in mind.”
-The Iroquois Confederacy (cir. 1000)
“The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.”
-Norman Borlaug
“If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.”
-Buzz Aldrin
“…the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.”
-Norman Borlaug
“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
