Dan Glickman Quotes

Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.

There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable.

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

Hunger could not exist but through violation of economic laws and fundamental principles of social justice.

It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat.

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

Food banks have become such a powerful symbol in part because they're inescapable.

Food is such a basic need, and it is unfathomable to me that people still do not have adequate access.

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

When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

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

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

A hungry man is not a free man.

In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

This is the richest country in the world. There's no reason kids should be going to school hungry. Food is something that everyone should have. It just is.