Tommy Douglas Quotes

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

A vacation from school should not mean hunger for our children.

The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

Poor young children and the elderly must be fed at public expense.

As a chef, a mom, and a member of Team No Kid Hungry, I believe that every child deserves three meals a day, every day.

In 2020, no child should go hungry, and yet, in South Carolina 1-in-5 children do.

The fact is, even one Maine kid going hungry is one kid too many.

I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

A hungry man is not a free man.

In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.

Being a mom, I can't imagine my child not having a meal. That's hard to digest.

The right use of food can end hunger.

Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

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

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.

It's hard for people who have never faced hunger or illiteracy to understand how crucial they are to the majority of mankind.

We don't want a country populated by children feeding themselves from garbage dumps.

The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

I asked for help and you send me a bulletin. The people of New York can not feed their children on Department bulletins.