Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

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  People, Stories, Literature

• I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight

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  Optimistic, Thinking, Literature

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

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  Years, Watches, Literature

• There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

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  Black, Literature, Matter

• The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.

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  Taken, People, Soldier

• There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

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  People, Political, Upset

• Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.

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  Taken, Men, Skeletons

• The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

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  Media, Silence, News

• A little bit of attention can go a long way.

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  Long, Attention, Literature

• Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

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  Pregnancy, Years, Half

• Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

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  Water, Dying, Malaria

• I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

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  Trying, Arrogant, Literature

• Random violence is incredibly infectious

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  Random Violence, Literature, Violence

• It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

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  Names, Literature, Cases

• 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.

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  Children, Husband, Night

• The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

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  Email, Literature, Columns

• Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives

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  Literature, Littles, Helping

• There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

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  Issues, Squares, 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.

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  Cancer, Mean, Priorities

• Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

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  Country, Female, Literature

• You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

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  Government, Needs, Literature

  "Guns, Politics And That Fake First Family: How To Create A Better World" by Cathy Chester, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2015.

• Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

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  Country, Abortion, Literature

• While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

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  Thinking, President, Literature

• Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

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  Children, Years, Age

• The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding

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  Cutting, President, Literature

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