Elie Wiesel Quotes

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!

I saw so many innocent lives, especially children, who were literally robbed of their potential because they're not given the food and nutrition that they need to get by. As a result, when young kids aren't given that proper nutrition, their minds are stunted; they're physically stunted. Truly, their start in life is one that is debilitating to them. And again, I certainly didn't grow up ever having to worry about where my next meal was coming from. The fact that so many people, even in our own country, worry about something so basic, it's something I really wanted to help do something about.

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

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

The fact is, even one Maine kid going hungry is one kid too many.

Twelve million children in the United States face hunger every day. Bringing an end to this terrible situation is a passion I share with my friends in the entertainment industry. Together we can end hunger.

To think that one child would go to bed hungry somewhere in this country is heartbreaking... to know how many do is virtually incomprehensible. This is not only a problem that exists in the far reaches of the globe. It happens right here in our own backyard. Together, as concerned citizens, we must do more to make sure every child's needs are met.

A huge amount still needs to be done. At the moment hundreds of children are still malnourished.

It is unconscionable for children in our prosperous country, or anywhere for that matter, to go without food. I implore everyone to contact their local and state representatives to encourage action to end hunger.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world. It claims 25,000 lives a day, 175,000 a week. It sweeps children from the arms of their mothers, robs hundreds of millions of any hope for the future. That tsunami is hunger. Help us end it now.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

I just want to tell you what it's like not to have Planned Parenthood... you have to give your kids Ramen noodles at the end of the month to fill up their little bellies so they won't cry. You have to give them mayonnaise sandwiches. They get very few fruits and vegetables because they're expensive.

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

There are teachers in the United States who cry in the daytime because they see a child or children who haven't eaten properly, children who haven't used soap in so long.

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.

Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.

Being a mom, I can't imagine my child not having a meal. That's hard to digest.

When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'

A vacation from school should not mean hunger for our children.

The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

We don't want a country populated by children feeding themselves from garbage dumps.

I asked for help and you send me a bulletin. The people of New York can not feed their children on Department bulletins.