Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes - Page 2

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• One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.

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  Girl, Ideas, Issues

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Home, Views, People

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

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• Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

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  Trying, Fetus, Should

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.244, Vintage

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• Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.

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  School, Marijuana, Long

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• America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

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  Opportunity, America, Generations

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• Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health

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  Left, Maternal Health, Focused

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• 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.

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  War, Years, People

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

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  Years, Watches, Literature

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• The trails are a reminder of our insignificance. We come and go, but nature is forever. It puts us in our place, underscoring that we are not lords of the universe but components of it...So when the world seems to be falling apart, when we humans seem to be creating messes everywhere we turn, maybe it's time to rejuvenate in the cathedral of the wilderness - and there, away from humanity, rediscover our own humanity.

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  Fall, Creating, Forever

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• Random violence is incredibly infectious

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  Random Violence, Literature, Violence

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• The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

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  Travel, Writing, People

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• 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.

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  Suicide, War, Gun

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

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• 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.

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  Education, Money, Reality

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• The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

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  Issues, Each Day, Labor

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.98, Vintage

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• American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve, is for Maliki to step back and share power with Sunnis while accepting decentralization of government. If Maliki does all that, it may still be possible to save Iraq. Without that, airstrikes would be a further waste in a land in which we've already squandered far, far too much.

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  Military, Government, Land

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• It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president

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  President, Blame, Republican

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• Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream. There's debate about this, but one recent study suggested that melting sea ice in the Arctic may lead to such blocking.

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  Block, Moving, Ice

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• If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died, then people tend not to be receptive. But once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

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  People, Empathy, Supportive

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

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  Optimistic, Thinking, Literature

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

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  Long, Attention, Literature

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• I said that one can't stereotype [Donald] Trump voters anymore than they can anybody else.

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  Voters, Stereotype, Columns

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at least see that as their role. In contrast, where issues of our national values are involved, which covers pretty much any humanitarian issue, they pretty much drop the ball.

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  Leader, Trying, Humanitarian

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

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  Weather, Climate, Climate Change

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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.

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  People, Political, Upset

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