David Hepworth Quotes

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

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

I have stopped at farm after farm where lean, underfed women and sickly men repeated again and again the same story—little food and no opportunity to get more.

In the 19th century, some people looked at the condition of slavery and said that it was monstrous and unconscionable; that it must be abolished. ... Today the condition of hunger in a world of plenty is equally monstrous and unconscionable and it too must be abolished. We must become the 'new abolitionists'.

Life is difficult in Africa, even getting three square meals.

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.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

A hungry man is not a free man.

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.

Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

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

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

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

If Victual should prove scarce, as we have not Goods or Money for any Value to send out for Corns [food grains like wheat]; so only a part of the People could be maintained: The better part would have Bread, but the more necessary part, the Laboring Men would be forced to leave the Country, or to starve in it.

The awful phantom of the hungry poor.

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want.

Why should blacks feel elated about seeing men walk on the moon when millions of poor blacks and whites don't have enough money to buy food to eat on earth?