Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  War, Earthquakes, Suffering

  "Orphaned, Raped and Ignored" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2010.

• 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.

• The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Children, War, People

• More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Suicide, War, Gun

  "Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?" by Nicholas D. Kristof, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2012.

• The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  War, Years, People

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