Hunger Quotes
1310 Hunger quotes by 906 unique authors
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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
— Jimmy Carter
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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…
— Carl Sagan
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35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children.…
— Jeff Bridges
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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…
— Jeff Bridges
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In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.
— Sela Ward
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There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.
— Ed Asner
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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
— Winston Churchill
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For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.
— Pablo Neruda
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Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.
— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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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…
— George McGovern
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If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
— Buzz Aldrin
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We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share…
— Edward James Olmos
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As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to…
— Barack Obama
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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…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is…
— John F. Kennedy
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This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a…
— George C. Marshall
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance,…
— Albert Camus
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Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from…
— David Lloyd George
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Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the…
— Pablo Neruda
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There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people…
— Mother Teresa
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If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
— Desmond Tutu
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My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe…
— Muhammad Yunus
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It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.
— Ban Ki-moon
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People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is…
— Cesar Chavez
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