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We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood
hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for
the children of our country.
-- Edward
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"Mercy Corps' partnership with The Hunger Site translates into lifesaving assistance
for people in tremendous need around the world. When you visit, click, and shop
at this unique site, you're making the future a little brighter for families who
need food in the world's poorest places."
-- Dan
O'Neill | 
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The world produces
enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should
go hungry anywhere.
-- Donnie Osmond 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!
-- Dolly Parton We
say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions
of poor American children go to bed hungry?
-- Alexandra Paul, actress
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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.
-- Bonnie
Raitt | 
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are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology
in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.
-- Jeremy Rifkin |
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, singer
"Fairness is an efficiency
parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient
way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion
have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least
vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving
somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them -- and
so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem,
because we live in the same ecosphere."
-- Karl-Henrik
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As long as people and the planet are being exploited, and billions of dollars
are being made precisely because laborers and the environment are being abused
and used up, there will be children going hungry and ecological destruction.
~ Ocean
Robbins |  |
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"The
peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation...
to enable governments to engage in a mad race in armaments... This grave menace
to the peace of the world is due in no small measure to the uncontrolled activities
of the manufacturers and merchants of engines of destruction, and it must be met
by the concerted actions of the peoples of all nations."
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt But
while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold
of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human
beings.
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"With the help of folks like you and me, Heifer International tackles the problem
of hunger one family at a time with gifts of renewable resources - farm animals
that are ongoing sources of food and income."
-- Susan
Sarandon |
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Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat.
It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat."
--
Amartya Sen
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I attempted to see
famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food,
or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated
picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.
-- Amartya
Sen No substantial
famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively
free press.
-- Amartya
Sen A hungry
people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
-- Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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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.
-- Martin
Sheen 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.
-- Martin
Sheen | 
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It's hard to believe
that, in the 1970's, America was virtually hunger-free. During the past two decades,
we have allowed hunger to attack our most precious resource, our children. We
must reinstate and strengthen programs to eliminate this blight on our society.
-- Kurtwood Smith, actor
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We must add our voices to those who cry out that there is a standard below which
we will not allow human beings to live, and that that standard is not at the freezing
nor starving point....In a democracy all are responsible.
-- Hannah
Solomon | 
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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
-- Gloria Steinem
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