William E. Conway Jr. Quotes

This is the richest country in the world. There's no reason kids should be going to school hungry. Food is something that everyone should have. It just is.

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.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

There are corporations worth billions of dollars—and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

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

In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.

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.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

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.

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it?

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

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.

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

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

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

Where the conditions to which material progress everywhere tends are most fully realized, we find the deepest poverty .... Amid the greatest accumulations of wealth, men die of starvation, and puny infants suckle dry breasts.

Hunger could not exist but through violation of economic laws and fundamental principles of social justice.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.