Africa Quote by Alcee Hastings

24,000 people, 18,000 of them children, die every day because of hunger. Each year we bring food to nearly 90 million people in more…

— Dikembe Mutombo

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition.…

— Jonathan Sacks

“The primary reason that U.S. infant mortality is so high compared to other countries is that African Americans suffer a staggering rate. If Black…

— Laura Briggs

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly,…

— Cat Cora

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

— Coretta Scott King

It is a country that professes to care for babies. But in the United States, the infant death rate is twice as high as…

— Annie Lowrey

In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question…

— Betty Williams

“Malnutrition and famines are common in some regions, but they result mainly from unequal distribution rather than adequate production, of food.”

— Jane B. Reece

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the…

— Harri Holkeri

Our society is only as healthy as our most vulnerable citizens. It is unconscionable that the weakest links in our country are our hungry…

— Linda Gray

There's no reason for people to die of hunger. We have the tools that we need to support them. We just need the resources.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield