Nicholas D. Kristof

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

— Nicholas D. Kristof

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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

— Nicholas D. Kristof

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust,…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs.…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“your book is full of piquant ideas on how sexual assault is practiced by many people but in African countries the issue…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died,…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just…

— Nicholas D. Kristof