Action Quote by Gro Harlem Brundtland

Progress to reduce hunger is being made by tackling both the cause and the consequences of extreme poverty and famine.

— Tae Yoo

poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

— W. S. Gilbert

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

— Frances Moore Lappé

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

— Pope Francis

Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope

— Jacques Diouf

“Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.”

— Paula Brackston

The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great…

— Scott Glenn

By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty,…

— Janet Poppendieck

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

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

— Maimonides

How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each…

— Bonnie Raitt

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to…

— Hubert H. Humphrey