Kofi Annan Quotes

poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.

For the first time we have the technical capacity to free mankind from the scourge of hunger.

We must labour to create the grain to feed people with. All other needs that we have are secondary; there is only one physical distress, and that is hunger.

If, at the end of my mandate, all Brazilians have the possibility to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, I will have fulfilled the mission of my life.

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it?

I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

I think about food all the time. It's my passion; it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand.

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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.

Hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans

When I started to see that I had two or three pair of shoes to wear to school and I had multiple pants, my mental health started getting stronger. I could focus on school, and my grades started to go up. I was eating, so I could focus on other things rather than being hungry, that's when I really started to excel. I started to create that path because I didn't have the small things to worry about and it all came from help. It all came from help from other people and other resources and without that, I wouldn't be here.

I created FEED as a way to provide people with a tangible way to make an impact in the fight against hunger, with each purchase of a FEED product donating meals directly to children in need.

I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.

Nobody in this country, the richest on Earth, should ever go hungry.

The food bank is something I've always supported because there's no excuse for anyone to go without food.

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.

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.