Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
She may hide it, but Clinton is a policy nerd. Ask about microfinance, and she'll talk your ear off. Mention early childhood… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Conservatives are, I think, correct to highlight family stability as a fundamental issue that goes to the welfare of children as much… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Seniors vote, and that is why we have, you know, Medicare since the 1960s for seniors, and we didn't have a national… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to try to help a six-month-old child or a six-year-old child than it is a 16-year-old troubled… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
You educate a boy, and he'll have fewer children, but it's a small effect. You educate a girl, and, on average, she… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish.… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
I suspect unconscious bias has been far more of a factor for President Obama than overt racism and will also be a challenge for… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the context of delivering services, and indeed… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
