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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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.
We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.