Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Quotes

If, at the end of my mandate, all Brazilians have the possibility to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, I will have fulfilled the mission of my life.

The right use of food can end hunger.

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don't go to bed hungry. It's not just that I have a love of diversity, it's the importance of the uses of that diversity.

Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

Eliminating hunger in America is doable, because we have the resources to do it.

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

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

Nobody in this country, the richest on Earth, should ever go hungry.

The day you really want to end all hunger, there will be no more hunger.

Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

Americans should be receiving one plate a day of hot food. That's not too much to ask in America. An MRE is very expensive for the American taxpayer. A hot meal is more affordable, it's cheaper. It's what people really need, it's what people really want. They feel all of a sudden that you are caring for them, that America is caring for them.

In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.

First and foremost: Feed people.

What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope.

A hungry mind is not free, and I felt if we were really going to make a difference and fight poverty we should at least start with the ability to feed ourselves, and the millions of Africans who don't have it.

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.

I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.