Hunger Awareness Quotes

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (“cognitive impairment” ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment — the kind most common among poor people in America — can do it.

My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

A hungry man is not a free man.

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

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!

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

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

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.

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

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.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

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.

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

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

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