Will Rogers Quotes

We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?

Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened.

SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

For centuries, soup kitchens have been a way for local communities to offer a way of support, both nutritional and emotional to their less lucky neighbors.

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

Why do we need to support the food stamp program? Because low-income families experience unemployment at a far higher rate than other income groups. Because cutting nutritional assistance programs is immoral and shortsighted, and protecting families from hunger improves their health and educational outcomes.

No Ohio family should be forced to go hungry during the holidays or any time.

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Bengal Famine, Parliament is likely to pass the National Food Security Bill which will be the world's largest social protection measure against hunger.

The food bank is something I've always supported because there's no excuse for anyone to go without food.

I participate in the SNAP Challenge to raise awareness about the millions of people in our communities who struggle with hunger on a daily basis despite living in the most prosperous nation ever known.

I write cheap recipes for struggling families and single people, and have donated 800 copies of my newest cookery book to food banks and other good causes.

I know some of you don't care about food stamps, but I'm telling you if it feeds children, you do care about it.

...won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.

I can go on and on. In the Appalachians. I fed the poorest part of this nation for years coming up at Christmas.

Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

If you can throw $5 back in the crafty, we'll take it, because it just means another meal, which is nice.

When you contribute to food banks or give money that goes to having meals delivered, you're meeting the most basic need. It's such a direct way to help.

It was surprising how many kids don't have lunches. If we all get behind this cause, it'll help a lot of the kids out there who don't really get enough food.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.