Important Quotes by Nicholas D. Kristof

Random violence is incredibly infectious

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing…

— 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. The barbaric…

— 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

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

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

— 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

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…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

— Nicholas D. Kristof