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We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.

— Jim Wallis

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✓Similar Perspectives

People are hungry for what's happening right now in the world.

— Kevin Systrom

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

— Alice Walker

We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

— Don Young

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

— Nelson Mandela

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

— Ertharin Cousin

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

— Umberto Eco

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

— Richard Holloway

I am not a prophet.

— Jose Saramago

✗Opposing Perspectives

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

— Orlando Bloom