Jacques Diouf famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.
-- Jacques Diouf

#Issues #Justice #Charity
Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance coverage from extreme weather events.
-- Jacques Diouf

#Loss #Weather #People
In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is thatÂ we don't need genetically modified organisms.
-- Jacques Diouf

#Taken #Needs #World
Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.
-- Jacques Diouf

#Agriculture #Heritage #Common
Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope
-- Jacques Diouf

#Progress #Driving #Hunger

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.
The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.
Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Jacques Diouf famous quotes

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