Pearl Bailey Quotes

A hungry man is not a free man.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

Hunger's a great spur.

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

Empty stomachs have no ears.

South Sudan is my home, and I am humbled to be in a position to help those suffering from lack of access to basic needs, especially the children facing severe acute malnutrition.

You can't expect kids who don't have enough to eat to do well.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

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

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

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.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

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.

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

People who are starving can hardly become a peaceful people.

This year, between 20 and 30 million persons will die of hunger in Russia …. Perhaps it is well that it should be so, for certain nations must be decimated.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

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.

[Starving] women, children, the elderly, they don’t know anything about four-party talks. They want to eat. They want to live.

Hunger is not debatable.

When you're drinking from a creek, it's not a good news story. When you don't have food for a baby, it's not a good news story.