The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
