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Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

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Norman Borlaug
Age: 95 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 25
Died: 2009
Died: September 12
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