"Ending hunger now represents not the reach of a utopian dream, but a realistic vision within humanity’s grasp." (Anonymous)

"Central to the Christian life is how we wrestle with the contradictions of life in light of the Christian imperatives of love, justice, equality and freedom." (Anonymous)

"The real difference between the poor and ourselves is that we, not they, have the ability to change things." (Dr. Donavan Russell)

"There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except as bread." (Corita Kent, Enriched Bread Silkscreens,1965)

"We cannot exist as a little island of well being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry at night. I want unity but above everything else, I want a party that will fight for the things that we know to be right at home and abroad." (Eleanor Roosevelt, speech at Democratic fundraising dinner, Dec. 8, 1959)

"It is impossible to engage in spiritual conflict unless the appetite has first been subdued." (Pope St. Gregory the Great—540-604 AD)

"How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he has known a fear beyond every other." (John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath)

"When we are not physically starving, we have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation." (Cherrie Moraga, La Guerra, In the Bridge Called My Back)

"When hunger gets inside you, nothing else can." (Yoruba—West African—Proverb)

"Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence." (Pearl Bailey)

"People often feed the hungry so that nothing may disturb their own enjoyment of a good meal." (W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook)

"The rich swell up from pride, the poor from hunger." (Sholom Aleichem)

"The outrage of hunger amidst plenty will never be solved by ‘experts’ somewhere. It will only be solved when people like you and me decide to act." (Frances Moore Lappe, American nutritionist and author)

"Never before has man had such a capacity to control his own environment—to end thirst and hunger..." (President John F. Kennedy)

"No people on earth can be held as a people to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace, and fellowship, and justice." (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

"What good is it, my friends, for someone to say he has faith when his actions do nothing to show it? Can that faith save him? Suppose a fellow Christian whether man or woman is in rags with not enough food for the day, and one of you says, ‘Goodbye, keep warm, and have a good meal,’ but does nothing to supply their bodily needs, what good is that? So with faith; if it does not lead to action, it is by itself a lifeless thing." (James 2:14-17)"35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war." (Jeff Bridges)

"Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger only through the wonderful work of local charities. Like other Western democracies, we must end our national problem of hunger through national and political leadership. Charity is nice for some things, but not as a way to feed a nation. We don't protect our national security through charity, and we shouldn't protect our families and children that way either." (Jeff Bridges)