Nicholas D. Kristof

Quotes

• “In talking about misogyny and gender-based violence, it would be easy to slip into the conceit that men are the villains...”
• “It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.”The American dream is not j...”
• “Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have fo...”
• “Anybody who has spent time in Indian brothels and also, say, at Indian brick kilns knows that it is better to be enslave...”
• “Rescuing girls from brothels is the easy part, however. The challenge is keeping them from returning. The stigma that gi...”
• “In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against ...”
• “There are 2-3 millions prostitutes in India, and although many of them now sell sex to some degree willingly, and are pa...”
• “In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes pl...”
• “Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it'...”
• “One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from universi...”
• “Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the governme...”
• “I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, d...”
• “Here, in impoverished northern India state of Bihar, near the Nepalese border, there's not much else available commercia...”
• “The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.”
• “But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.”
• “Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.”
• “The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.”