“Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.” WayWantWellsChildrenOur ChildrenIncludingHungerHungryPerformingDistractedPerforming Well Author:Arne Duncan
“A vacation from school should not mean hunger for our children.” ShouldMeanChildrenSchoolOur ChildrenHungerVacation Author:Dina Titus
“Our children were created with a deep hunger to encounter the supernatural living God.” ChildrenOur ChildrenHungerEncounters Author:Becky Fischer
“We have so many issues today that we need to confront. Comprehensive immigration reform. We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war - spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build. We have to deal with the fact that all of our children should be receiving the best possible education.” NeedsShouldChildrenWarFactsTodayDealsPovertyIssuesOur ChildrenDollarsHungerSolveSpendingBillionsImmigrationReformReceivingComprehensiveImmigration Reform Author:John Lewis
“The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.” ChildrenOur ChildrenHungerAccessInsecurityNutritionObesityProper Nutrition Author:Tom Vilsack
“We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.” PeopleWorldChildrenEndsSufferingCultureParentUnderstandingNumbersFamilyPovertyDiseaseOur ChildrenLongingHungerCaringNeighborGenuineGenerosityGenuine Friendship Author:John Conyers
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsChildrenWarCountryNextPoorMillionsSocietyOur ChildrenHungerHungryUsaMealsWorld HungerEnding HungerHunger For FoodFood BanksHunger Awareness Author:Jeff Bridges
“We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women, and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been. They have imposed hungers on us, and now we hunger for justice.” MenNeedsChildrenHas BeensLawPurposeSufferingNamesJusticePovertyKnowingSacrificeLandCrimeLaborOur ChildrenMiseryGreedInjusticeHungerObviousDesperationMen WomenBrutalityStoopsCallous Author:Cesar Chavez
“To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there are years of plenty. This is one of the truths of our existence as those who live by the land know: that sometimes we eat and sometimes we starve. We live by our labours fromone harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are prolonged we know we must see the weak surrender their lives and this fact, too, is within our experience. In our lives there is no margin for misfortune.” IfsKnowsYearsChildrenSometimesFactsAbleCertainNextExistenceOur LivesLandWeakOur ChildrenHungerSurrenderPlentyLabourLive ByHardshipMisfortunesHarvestMarginsBad Times Author:Kamala Markandaya