Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes About Genocide

Quotes about: Genocide

• More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Country, War

  "Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide". Book by Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2008.

• You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Years, Watches, Literature

• If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Cancer, Mean, Priorities

• For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Genocide

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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