Hunger Quotes - Page 33

• ...won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

  George Harrison

  Giving, Bread, Feds

  Song: Bangla Desh

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• Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

  George Harrison

  Giving, May, Bread

  Song: Bangla Desh

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• No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both the government and the private sector, self-interest has displaced the ideal of community that made this country great. The old world view of "us, we, our" has been replaced by "I, me, mine." The reasons for this are manifold and complex, but at the end of the day, we need to remember that, if one of us is suffering needlessly, all of us are diminished.

  Don Henley

  Country, Government, Self

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• In this country of the bountiful harvest, everyone can have enough to eat - we have it! We grow enough for everyone. Let's share it by supporting our local foodbanks, houses of worship and organizations who help people.

  Catherine Hicks

  Country, Organization, People

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• For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Air, Sea

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• Twelve million children in the United States face hunger every day. Bringing an end to this terrible situation is a passion I share with my friends in the entertainment industry. Together we can end hunger.

  Kathy Ireland

  Children, Passion, Together We Can

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• Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save our country from this problem.

  Beverly Johnson

  Country, Children, Reality

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• There is a hidden epidemic threatening the lives of millions of Americans...hunger. In this land of plenty, it is unthinkable that fellow citizens are going hungry. Included among these millions are children who, due to malnourishment, are not developing to their full potential intellectually, emotionally or behaviorally. The fortunate must provide for the unfortunate.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Children, Epidemics, Land

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• A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.

  Susette La Flesche

  Children, Struggle, Men

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• What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.

  Martin Landau

  Country, Support, Political

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• Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Issues, People, Decision

  "Frances Moore Lappé : Diet for a Small Planet". Interview with Steve Keull and Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

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• Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Pain, People, World

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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, Hunger And Poverty

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• I will never tire from repeating my commitment to ensuring that every Brazilian can have breakfast, lunch and supper every day.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Commitment, Lunch, Breakfast

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• To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in both the public and private sectors, will work tirelessly to eradicate hunger. We all have a responsibility to bring back life to our most precious natural resource.

  Joan Lunden

  Children, Responsibility, Leader

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• We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

  George McGovern

  Cost, Done, Ends

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• I didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.

  George McGovern

  Children, School, Lunch

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• You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Ideas, Long

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4544, Delphi Classics

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• We cannot stand by and allow the future of our country to be undermined by the reality of American children going hungry! Please join in to help the 12 million children who are malnourished in our country.

  Donna Mills

  Country, Children, Reality

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• To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Trying, Academic

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• 24,000 people, 18,000 of them children, die every day because of hunger. Each year we bring food to nearly 90 million people in more than 80 countries. Food - there's no greater gift, and no better way to give it than the World Food Programme.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Country, Children, Years

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• It is unconscionable for children in our prosperous country, or anywhere for that matter, to go without food. I implore everyone to contact their local and state representatives to encourage action to end hunger.

  Kevin Nealon

  Country, Children, Matter

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• The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.

  Donny Osmond

  Population, World, Hungry

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• Even one kid going hungry in America is one too many. How can we stand by when the reality is that there are more than 12 million underfed children in the U.S.? We can make a difference.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Children, Kids, Reality

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• Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Joy, Sorrow, Novelists

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1744, Delphi Classics

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