I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness.
A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers.
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Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.
It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.
No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.