Charity Quote by Jacques Diouf Download Open image “Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.” — Jacques Diouf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Charity Ending hunger Generosity Hunger Issues Justice Poverty
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… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share
Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate. — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
Hunger is a moral issue. Human beings should not allow other human beings to go hungry. — Rick Carlisle Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need genetically modified organisms. — Jacques Diouf Copy Share Image
Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope — Jacques Diouf Copy Share Image
Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate… — Jacques Diouf Copy Share Image
The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Considering community support and cost-benefit analysis, I have supported earmarks for projects of high public purpose involving such areas as higher education, alternative energy,… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image