Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes
I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.
In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.
We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.
Americans have called on moderates in Muslim countries to speak out against extremists, to stand up for the tolerance they say they believe in. We should all have the guts do the same at home.
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.
I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.
Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that . . . it is often cited by the oppressors.
But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.
Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the government is not directly involved people shrug.
In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news.
I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, do somethingfor our children'.