Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice."
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Hunger And Poverty
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Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed."
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"The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God."
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"I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty."
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"The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science."
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"As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others."
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"A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never good but through necessity: on the contrary, when good and evil are left to their choice, they will not fail to throw every thing into disorder and confusion. Hunger and poverty may make men industrious, but laws only can make them good; for, if men were so of themselves, there would be no occasion for laws; but, as the case is far otherwise, they are absolutely necessary."
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