Hunger In America Quotes

• 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 that is literally within our grasp.

  Jeff Bridges

  Differences, Knowing, America

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• Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world, should hunger darken the lives and dreams of 12 million children and their families? I believe that, when Americans learn the facts and understand how their involvement can make a difference, banishing childhood hunger will be a national, local and personal priority.

  Martin Sheen

  Dream, Country, Children

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• I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Country, Children

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• A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Food Banks, Poverty

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• Many people think that hunger is unavoidable in any society, even a society that is blessed with great abundance. That is not true. The European community does not have widespread hunger. America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Children, Blessed, Thinking

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• The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

  Walden Bello

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, People

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• The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

  Sandra Lee

  Children, America, Issues

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• We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.

  Bruce Davison

  America, Issues, News

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• America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

  Pierce Brosnan

  America, Childhood, Ending Hunger

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• Good night, and good luck.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Good Night, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS' See It Now, Originally Broadcast 13 April 1954

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• In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America.

  Naomi Wolf

  Good Night, Goodnight, Good Luck

  "Smugglers of truth" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• It's hard to believe that, in the 1970's, America was virtually hunger-free. During the past two decades, we have allowed hunger to attack our most precious resource, our children. We must reinstate and strengthen programs to eliminate this blight on our society.

  Kurtwood Smith

  Children, Believe, Past

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• It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Country, America, Wealth

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• If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.

  Harry Chapin

  Commitment, Thinking, Impact

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• America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will.

  Christie Brinkley

  Believe, America, Hunger

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• People don't see hunger in front of them so they are not directly affected. What I am doing is connecting young people to the issue

  Lauren Bush

  Issues, People, Youth

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• I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large.

  Kristi Jacobson

  Eye, Thinking, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My family grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for our family. Child hunger in America is a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, we can fix.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Children, Real, Together We Can

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• Going around this country, I have found a great hunger in America for spiritual revival; for a belief that law must be based on a higher law; for a return to traditions and values that we once had. Our government, in its most sacred documents - the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and all - speak of man being created, of a Creator; that we're a nation under God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spiritual, Country, Men

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• Walmart is committed to fighting hunger in America every day.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Fighting, America, Walmart

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