Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes - Page 4

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• 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

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• A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

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  Country, Sri Lanka, Way

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• The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

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  Months, Conflict, Victim

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

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  Movement, World, Century

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• 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.

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  Children, War, People

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• One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot

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  Men, Talking, Water

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• 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

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• I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.

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  Thinking, Principles, Lines

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

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  People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and child marriage, and now it's one of the better places. So I really do feel that we're on the right side of history here.

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  Growing Up, Children, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

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  Media, Silence, News

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

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  Writing, Editors, News

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing. It struck me as a better way to learn about a place, or at least a different way, than just going to interview the president. So I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. But I'm just amazed.

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  Writing, Issues, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.

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  Optimistic, Thinking, Dangerous

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.

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  Kids, People, Alive

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

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  Lying, Principles, Journalism

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• It's important not to demonize [Donald's] Trump voters.

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  Important, Voters, Trump

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.

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  World, Dangerous, Can Do

  "The World's Modern-Day Lepers: Women With Fistulas" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. March 19, 2016.

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• If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.

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  Country, Talking, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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