57 posts categorized "Hunger QOTD"

"Why should there be hunger and privation in any land, in any city, at any table when [we have] the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all [hu]mankind with the basic necessities of life? ... There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will."

--Martin Luther King Jr., in his Nobel Peace Prize lecture.

Photo by Flickr user mrsdkrebs

"Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those throughout the world who live and die in poverty or hunger. Give them, through our hands, this day their daily bread; and by our understanding love, give peace and joy."

--Mother Teresa of Calcutta

"If we’re being honest about the millions of Americans who are hurting in our economy and just trying to put food on the table, then there is no question, funding for SNAP needs to be preserved."

-Rep. Jackie Speier,  D-CA

Photo caption: Mother and daughter enjoy a block party in Washington, DC. Photo by Crista Friedli/Bread for the World.

A Haitian child collects water in a camp for displaced people in Cité de Dieu, Port-au-Prince. UN Photo/UNICEF/Marco Dormino.

"To the wrongs that need resistance, to the right that needs assistance, to the future in the distance, give yourselves."

--Carrie Chapman Catt, women's suffrage leader

Two young girls smile in Timor-Leste. On November 6, 2008, the government of Spain earmarked $4.9 million for a project aimed at improving social services for Timorese women and girls affected by gender-based violence. UN Photo/Martine Perret.

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”

-Elie Wiesel, Night

Children gather in Jombo village, Malawi, where a well provides clean water for drinking, cooking, and sanitation needs. The village is part of the USAID-funded Wellness and Agriculture of Life Advancement (WALA) project designed by Catholic Relief Services. Village residents learn how to prepare nutritious meals for their families and the importance of good hygiene. Photographed in October 2011 by June Kim.

"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let [them] suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to [their] assistance."

-Simone Weil

Photo by Flickr user  Daehyun Park

"I am my brother’s keeper, and he’s sleeping pretty rough these days."

-Archbishop Derek Worlock, British Roman Catholic Cleric, London Observer

"The freedom of [hu]mans, I contend, is the freedom to eat."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Photo caption: Mother and daughter shell peas from their garden in Nicaragua/Bread for the World.

Children enjoy a snack at an after-school program in Washington, DC. Photo by Mark Fenton.

"America is the richest country in the world. And yet tonight, thousands of your neighbors will go to bed hungry. It may be your child's schoolmate who is undernourished and has difficulty learning on an empty stomach. Or it could be a co-worker, a working mother whose low-wage job doesn't make ends meet. Perhaps it's an elderly neighbor who has to make a decision whether to delay filling a prescription or buying groceries. The faces of hunger are as broad as the faces of America."

-David Nasby, retired vice president of the General Mills Foundation

Photo of Majora Carter by James Burling Chase

“By working together, we can become one of those small, rapidly growing groups of individuals who actually have the audacity and courage to believe that we can actually change the world.”

-Majora Carter