“When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a Communist.”

“And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed, as Jesus did, they get in trouble. Once we are actually friends with the folks in struggle, we start to ask why people are poor, which is never as popular as giving to charity. One of my friends has a shirt marked with the words of late Catholic bishop Dom Helder Camara: “When I fed the hungry, they called me a saint. When I asked why people are hungry, they called me a communist.” Charity wins awards and applause but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for living out of love that disrupts the social order that calls forth a new world. People are not crucified for helping poor people. People are crucified for joining them.”

“I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.”

“Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.”

“When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ”

“Why do you steal, you rascal? Why don't you look for some honest work?"
"Because, sir, I am hungry. Any work that will permit me to feed myself is honest enough for me.”

“Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.”

“My friend James Morris heads the World Food Programme, whose task it is to feed the hungry. He recently told me, "If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry."”

“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”

“We all enter a period of agony, when our heart is hungry and the only one who could feed it, never will.”