Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes

Nicholas D. Kristof — American Writer born on April 27, 1959,

Nicholas Donabet Kristof is an American journalist, author, op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001, and The Washington Post says that he "rewrote opinion journalism" with his emphasis on human rights abuses and social injustices, such as human trafficking and the Darfur conflict. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has described Kristof as an "honorary African" for shining a spotlight on neglected conflicts... (wikipedia)

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.