Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes

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

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

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

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can gr...

So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to eman...

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was...

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and l...

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like...

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

It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.”The Ame...

In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man ca...

I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't d...

Rescuing girls from brothels is the easy part, however. The challenge is keeping them from returning...

In talking about misogyny and gender-based violence, it would be easy to slip into the conceit that ...

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems...

Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, th...

There are 2-3 millions prostitutes in India, and although many of them now sell sex to some degree w...

Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Y...

Here, in impoverished northern India state of Bihar, near the Nepalese border, there's not much else...

When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, s...

Anybody who has spent time in Indian brothels and also, say, at Indian brick kilns knows that it is ...