President Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Every gun that is made, every
warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a
theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are
not clothed.”
Our nation grew out of this principle. During the first terrible winter
after landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620, many of the Pilgrims and their
children were saved from starvation by the food given them by Native
Americans. It was our first supplemental nutrition assistance program.
Our national narrative and legendry were set in motion by this act of
lifesaving food aid. We should not abandon this noble tradition, but
honor it.
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