Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Home, Views, People

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.88, Vintage

• So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Teenage, Drama

  "Half The Sky: How to Change the World". Book by Nicholas D. Kristof, September 8, 2008.

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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Children, Years, Age

• Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Education, Money, Reality

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