Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes - Page 3

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• While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

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  Thinking, President, 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.

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  New York, Sea, Cities

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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

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  Country, Female, Literature

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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

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  Issues, Squares, Literature

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• It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

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  Names, Literature, Cases

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Media, Silence, News

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

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  Pregnancy, Years, Half

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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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• The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

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  Email, Literature, Columns

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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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• 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.

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  Powerful, Real, Rights

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

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• Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.

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  Religious, Heart, Keys

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• Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.

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  Military, People, Band

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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