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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how read more
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.
It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor
is bent by any prayers.
[Lat., read more
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor
is bent by any prayers.
[Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla
prece flectitur, populus esuriens.]
They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs--
That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
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They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs--
That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds
They vented their complainings, which being answered
And a petition granted them, a strange one,
To break the heart of generosity,
And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps
As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,
Shouting their emulation.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.
At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.
