Fiorello H. La Guardia Quotes

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.

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

Hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans

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.

There are teachers in the United States who cry in the daytime because they see a child or children who haven't eaten properly, children who haven't used soap in so long.

A hungry man is not a free man.

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

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

Anytime you cut food stamps, it naturally affects sales. People spend less.

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

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.

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.

No American should have to choose between heating and eating.

Hunger in America is an American problem. The hunger of one should be the concern of all. Especially the hunger of children - our children.

There's a lot of children that go to bed every night hungry in New York City, and it's shameful. That's really disturbing to me.

We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

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.

When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.

A huge amount still needs to be done. At the moment hundreds of children are still malnourished.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be!

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

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.