Quotes on Ending Hunger

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.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.

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

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

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.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

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.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.