Satish Kumar Quotes

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want.

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.

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.

Things do go wrong. Not everyone benefits from the capitalist dream.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

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.

On my way back to Missouri I stopped in St Louis and I saw my first bread line – 200 starving men forming a gray line as they waited for food. The sight of them disturbed me.

The imperialists have also imposed on us an unjust economic order, and thereby divided our people into two groups: oppressors and oppressed. Hundreds of millions of Muslims are hungry and deprived of all form of health care and education.

If a man dies of hunger, all the people of the district are responsible for his death

We hear time and again what a prosperous, affluent country Britain is, the sixth richest in the world. But aren't we ashamed that people who need emergency food handouts are eating cold beans and stewed steak from the tin, or handing it back, because they can't even heat it up?

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

Complaint is poverty.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.