Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

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

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

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.

You can’t make progress in any of the other problems in the world if people are undernourished.

Every second of every day there are three new mouths to feed in this world.

People don’t eat in the long run, Senator, they eat every day.

Food security is not only a matter of humanitarian assistance and agricultural development; it is a matter of national security, peace and stability.

Hunger is not debatable.

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

I simply believe that food is a human right.

We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.

Hunger is an issue that I've cared about for a very long time and is incredibly personal and important to me.

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.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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

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.

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.

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