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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.

    "Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest's Journey from Jail". Book by Father John Dear, 1995.
  • Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  • The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

    Love   Peace   Loneliness  
    Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”
  • The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

    Love   Life   Positive  
    Interview with Edward W. Desmond, Time magazine, December 04, 1989.
  • How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.

    Country   School   Garden  
  • 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.

    "Obama welcomes Hollande as French president hints at Afghan compromise" by Ewen MacAskill, Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.
  • I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an $80 lunch with my privileged friends to discuss hunger and poverty. That's when my soul feels imperiled.

  • The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

    Jawaharlal Nehru, H. N. Sethna (1981). “Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979”
  • There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

    Witty   Humorous   Food  
  • 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.

  • Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

  • My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe that humans are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue.

    Muhammad Yunus (2003). “Banker to the Poor: The Story of the Grameen Bank”, p.11, Aurum Press Limited
  • 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.

    "5 Questions for Bill Gates: The Full Interview" by Dana Goldstein, www.thedailybeast.com. January 24, 2010.
  • 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 (1996). “In My Own Words”
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182
  • There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

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

    Twitter post from Jan 21, 2016
  • It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

    Jawaharlal Nehru, H. N. Sethna (1981). “Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979”
  • 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.

    "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".
  • You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

  • 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.

  • Hunger makes a thief of any man.

    Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Good Earth”, p.154, Open Road Media
  • A hungry man is not a free man.

    Speech, Kasson, Minn., 6 Sept. 1952
  • 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.

    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.
  • Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.

    Riane Eisler (2008). “The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics”, p.124, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  • We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

    Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.99
  • 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.

    Peace   Military   War  
    Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953
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