Hunger And Poverty Quotes

• When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hunger Poverty, Giving

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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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

  Years, Hunger Poverty, Mass Destruction

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• Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hunger Poverty, Justice, Overcoming

  Twitter post from Jan 21, 2016

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Knowledge, Hunger Poverty, Stressed

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• You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Health, Ecosystems, People

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• There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Hunger Poverty, Simplicity

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• Poverty is the worst form of violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Hunger Poverty

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  If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Helping Others

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• A hungry man is not a free man.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Men, Compassion

  Speech, Kasson, Minn., 6 Sept. 1952

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• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Witty, Humorous, Food

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• Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.

  Fidel Castro

  War, People, World

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• Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hands, Hunger For Love

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

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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 peace. We are our brother's keeper.

  George McGovern

  Country, Brother, Responsibility

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• Hunger makes a thief of any man.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Sad, Men, Hunger Poverty

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Good Earth”, p.154, Open Road Media

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• The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.

  Walden Bello

  Children, Land, Suffering

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• What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

  Tom Morello

  Years, Numbers, People

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• The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Fighting, Order, Priorities

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• When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

  Hélder Câmara

  Motivational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  "Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest's Journey from Jail". Book by Father John Dear, 1995.

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• Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Real, Educational

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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• Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

  Mother Teresa

  Sad, Sympathy, Thinking

  Speech by the President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at the Birth Centenary Celebrations of Mother Teresa, pib.nic.in. August 30, 2010.

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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 partner with others.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Fighting, Hunger Poverty

  "Obama welcomes Hollande as French president hints at Afghan compromise" by Ewen MacAskill, Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

  Bill Gates

  Yield, Increase, Enormous

  "5 Questions for Bill Gates: The Full Interview" by Dana Goldstein, www.thedailybeast.com. January 24, 2010.

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, Military

  Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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  The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Positive

  Interview with Edward W. Desmond, Time magazine, December 04, 1989.

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