A Quote by David Hepworth

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

David Hepworth

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Consequence Famine Poverty

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David Hepworth
British - Journalist
Born: July 27, 1950

We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

Bob Geldof

The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.

Michel Chossudovsky

Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other items. The food famine becomes a symptom of that vast failure.

Amber Rudd

Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease.

Samuel Eto'o

Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.

Akong Rinpoche

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Progress to reduce hunger is being made by tackling both the cause and the consequences of extreme poverty and famine.

Tae Yoo

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

Samuel Johnson

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

Adam Schiff

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

Nikolai Gogol

There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.

Mother Teresa

Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia for so long , it would be stupid not to be sensitive to the risk of such things occurring. But there has not been a famine on our watch - emergencies, but no famines.

Meles Zenawi

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

Norman Borlaug

Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.

Richard Rohr

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

Laozi

I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.

George Rogers Clark

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