Harrison Salisbury Quotes

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

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

If Victual should prove scarce, as we have not Goods or Money for any Value to send out for Corns [food grains like wheat]; so only a part of the People could be maintained: The better part would have Bread, but the more necessary part, the Laboring Men would be forced to leave the Country, or to starve in it.

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

The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

I care about the children of Detroit.

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

I have stopped at farm after farm where lean, underfed women and sickly men repeated again and again the same story—little food and no opportunity to get more.

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

No one has starved.

On my way back to Missouri I stopped in St Louis and I saw my first bread line – 200 starving men forming a gray line as they waited for food. The sight of them disturbed me.

There is no starvation in China today. This is something that has not ever been achieved by any other government in China – ever.

Poor young children and the elderly must be fed at public expense.

If a man dies of hunger, all the people of the district are responsible for his death

Sire, have pity on the Spanish infantry, which, for lack of pay and out of sheer starvation, is scouring the low country round, plundering the peasantry in mere need of food. These disorders I cannot repress, much less can I punish them, for necessity has no law.

Why should I feed my prisoners when I don't have enough to feed my peasants?

Famine, it turns out, is not caused by a failure to produce food. It is caused by a failure to distribute food correctly — because the ruler is not accountable to the starving.