“We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.”

“Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach).”

“People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis.”

“Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.”

“The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you seek your own way? (Deuteronomy 8:1-3)”

“An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.”

“There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”