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In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.
— Nicholas Kristof
Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.
— Nicholas Kristof
A little bit of attention can go a long way.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Some degree of prostitution will probably always be with us, but we need not acquiesce to widespread sexual slavery.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Random violence is incredibly infectious.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
It's time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.
— Nicholas Kristof
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
In America, we have subsidized private jets, big banks and hedge fund managers. Wouldn't it make more sense to subsidize kids?
— Nicholas Kristof
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
— Nicholas Kristof
Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?
— Nicholas D. Kristof
A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.
— Nicholas Kristof
It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .
— Nicholas D. Kristof
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
In many poor countries, the problem is not so much individual thugs and rapists but an entire culture of sexual predation.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Zimbabwe has far fewer tourists than South Africa or Kenya, and there's less crime as well.
— Nicholas Kristof
Even when a social problem is so vast as to be insoluble in its entirety, it's still worth mitigating.
— Nicholas Kristof
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.
— Nicholas Kristof
The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.
— Nicholas Kristof
Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.
— Nicholas Kristof
I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.
— Nicholas Kristof
To be born poor in America today is to have a much smaller chance statistically of entering the middle class than was true a generation ago.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul.
— Nicholas Kristof
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
If you can capture the youth and change the way they think, then you can change the future.
— Nicholas D. Kristof And Sheryl WuDunn
Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such option for a gun?
— Nicholas Kristof
In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
— Nicholas D. Kristof
It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Here, in impoverished northern India state of Bihar, near the Nepalese border, there's not much else available commercially-- except sex.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Teaching in a village school in Nepal was a freaking piece of cake compared to teaching in my native land.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivian city may be Potosi.
— Nicholas Kristof
Numeracy isn't a sign of geekiness, but a basic requirement for intelligent discussions of public policy.
— Nicholas Kristof
When women gain a voice in society, there's evidence of less violence.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.
— Nicholas Kristof
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Things that happen every day are, frankly, what we in the news business aren't good at covering because there is no one day in which they are news.
— Nicholas Kristof
Moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.
— Nicholas Kristof
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Sexism and misogyny. How else to explain why so many more witches were burned than wizards?
— Nicholas D. Kristof
It is so much easier to try to help a six-month-old child or a six-year-old child than it is a 16-year-old troubled kid.
— Nicholas Kristof
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating a village. -African Proverb — Nicholas D. Kristof
Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
— Nicholas Kristof
Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
— Nicholas Kristof
The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.
— Nicholas Kristof
Was given as a first-world citizen, and I believe it is my responsibility to work so that these opportunities are available to all.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.
— Nicholas Kristof
There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.
— Nicholas Kristof
1266What matters to the children's well-being isn't so much the level of the family's wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or the father.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
— Nicholas Kristof
