Adrienne Rich Quotes

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.

Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

I simply believe that food is a human right.

We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.

We take it for granted that because our shelves and supermarkets are heaving with food that there are no problems with food security. But we have limited land in the U.K., and climate disruption and population growth are putting pressure on food supply.

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

Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.

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

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

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.

This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.

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

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves, confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle is our only recourse. He, was a citizen of the free world that together we are in the process of building. That is why we say that Che Guevara is also African and Burkinabè.

To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.

Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agriculture, which uses 756 million tons of grain and corn per year, much more than enough to adequately feed the 1.4 billion human who are living in dire poverty?