Ron Dellums Quotes

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.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

Pudding is not a human right.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

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

Our Dream Is A World Free Of Poverty.

In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty. In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry. In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write.

Abolish Poverty

Hunger has no ideology. It does not respond to party or to rant. Hunger, in short, is not a red state/blue state problem.

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.

I simply believe that food is a human right.

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.

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.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or proper irrigation may be a fantasy based on the finest intentions. But it is a cruel fantasy nonetheless.

A hungry man is not a free man.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.

Eliminating hunger in America is doable, because we have the resources to do it.

IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions.