Nicholas D. Kristof

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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

— Nicholas D. Kristof

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

It's important not to demonize [Donald's] Trump voters.

— 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

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .

— 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

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

— 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

“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.”

— 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

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

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

— 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

In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading…

— 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

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or…

— 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

“Philanthropists and donors traditionally haven't been sufficiently interested in women's rights abroad, giving money instead to higher brow causes such as the…

— Nicholas D. Kristof