Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes

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There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

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Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

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

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God should sue the Republican National Convention for defamation.

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Like any masterly comic book villain, Donald Trump is reveling in conjuring a dystopia. And it's a natural progression, given that he got this far by reveling in conjuring a disstopia.

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Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.

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In a place that might seem an anti-government fantasy taken to an extreme, people desperately yearn for all the burdens of government and tolerance of social diversity that Americans gripe about.

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The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

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Trump would never make the eat-your-peas pivot to professionalism, comity and civility, so Ivanka did it for him.

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The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

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Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

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Americans have called on moderates in Muslim countries to speak out against extremists, to stand up for the tolerance they say they believe in. We should all have the guts do the same at home.

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

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One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

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