Tracy Chapman Quotes

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

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.

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

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.

Wherever I go people recognize me, call my name, cheer for me. But there are names no one cares to remember, that no one cheers for: the 805 million people suffering from hunger in the world today.

We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance

People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

There are people all over the world starving and here we are trying to get pot delivered for free; we felt kind of guilty.

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.

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

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

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?

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

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

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

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.

In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.

We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.