David Harewood Quotes

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

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

We Americans have food in massive oversupply. That oversupply has crushed farm prices. We must dispose of the surpluses in order to strengthen prices, and we should dispose of them by feeding the starving and hungry overseas and the malnourished at home.

This year alone, total world cereal production was estimated to be 2,114 million tons, while total cereal demand was projected at around 1007 million tones, less than half of the cereal production. Ideally, no one should starve or die of hunger in the world we live. Strangely and sadly enough, they do. This is not fair. This is not right.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

Every second of every day there are three new mouths to feed in this world.

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

For the first time we have the technical capacity to free mankind from the scourge of hunger.

There are 6 million people in the world. With organic farming, we will only be able to feed 4 billion of them. Which 2 billion will volunteer to die?

Food security is not only a matter of humanitarian assistance and agricultural development; it is a matter of national security, peace and stability.

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

I simply believe that food is a human right.

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

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.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

A hungry man is not a free man.

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.