“ Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that ha… Nicholas D. Kristof
“ There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror. Nicholas D. Kristof
“ Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea. 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 U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding. Nicholas D. Kristof
“ Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries. Nicholas D. Kristof
“ More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade… Nicholas D. Kristof
“ Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas. —CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY, Florence of Arabia Nicholas D. Kristof
“ 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. Nicholas D. Kristof
“ It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.”The American dream is not just a yearning for affluence, Adams said, but also for the chance to overcome ba… Nicholas D. Kristof
“ In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news. Nicholas D. Kristof
“ Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses. Nicholas D. Kristof
“ Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil. Nicholas D. Kristof
“ The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings. Nicholas D. Kristof
“ Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that . . . it is often cited by the oppressors. 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 any understanding of poverty at home or abroad. Nicholas D. Kristof
“ But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first. Nicholas D. Kristof
