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• There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Sex, Politics, Today

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• 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.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Media, Silence, News

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• 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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Issues, Squares, Literature

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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Country, Female, Literature

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• Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  New York, Sea, Cities

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• 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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Cutting, President, Literature

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• 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

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• 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.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Political, Upset

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• 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

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• There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Powerful, Real, Rights

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.250, Vintage

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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Thinking, Principles, Lines

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  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.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  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.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Optimistic, Thinking, Dangerous

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  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.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  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.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  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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• 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.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Growing Up, Children, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Country, Talking, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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