Carmen Yulín Cruz Quotes

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.

Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

When a poor man has bread, he has no salt, and when he has salt, he has no bread. If he has some seasoning he has no meat. If he has some meat, he has no seasoning.

We came from nothing really. One house. Ten people. Even days the lights was off. The worst days was not eating. Surviving off rice and toast.

A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin.

At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Hunger allows no choice.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would stop and look into the trash cans, and if there was a half a sandwich, I would take that sandwich and eat it. It was just a matter of survival. I didn't think much of it, but it was just the way things were.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

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.

I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.