The fact is that this generation -- yours, my generation ... we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly.

BONO, 2004 PENN Address

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

WILLA CATHER, "The Burglar's Christmas," Home Monthly, Dec. 1896

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

H. G. WELLS, "The Diamond Maker"