"You have demonstrated beyond question that free peoples all over the world can agree upon a common course of action, and upon common machinery for action...The United Nations are united in the war against fear and want, as solidly and effectively as they are united on the battle front in this world war against aggression...And we are winning that war by action and unity."
~ President Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking to delegates at a 1943 conference of allied nations in Hot Springs, Virginia.  Taken from his remarks upon approval of a proposal for the Food and Agriculture Organization.

"Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery."
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy, before the UN General Assembly

"Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos."
~ George Marshall

"In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education."
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Never doubt a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.  Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
~ Margaret Mead

"I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for the minds and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr., taken from his remarks upon acceptance of the Nobel Prize

"For now I ask no more
Than the justice of eating."
~ Pablo Neruda, Chilean Poet, Noble Prize Winner

"What the people of the world want most and have always wanted...are bread and peace.  World Food Day gives voice to that yearning."
~ Patricia Young, National Coordinator WFD USA in remarks to the UN General Assembly

"Hunger denies, wastes, and degrades the gift of life."
~ Edouard Saouma, former FAO director-general

"Think of water, food, people, and land as interwoven threads in the fabric of the world."
~ Anne Olson, Georgia Department of Education

"Hunger is not an issue of charity.  It is an issue of justice."
~ Jacques Diouf, FAO Director-general

"The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities"
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"We want children to grow up stront and healthy because they might grow up to do something great."
~ First grade student