"The abolition of hunger needs a re-dedication just as in the 19th century when some people looked around and said that the existence of slavery was unacceptable and unconscionable and that it degraded not just the slaves themselves, but all those who lived in the same time that slavery existed. These people were called 'abolitionists.'

I say today we should look around the world and say that a billion people going hungry is unconscionable and unacceptable. We should become the 'new abolitionists' against the scourge of hunger."