192 Quotes by Nicholas D. Kristof

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

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

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

Women’s empowerment helps raise economic productivity and reduce infant mortality. It contributes to improved health and nutrition. It increases the chances of education for the next generation.

Give parents the tools to nurture their child in infancy and the result will be a more self-confident and resilient individual for decades to come. It’s far less expensive to coach parents to support children than to maintain prisons years later.

If only women are talking about women’s rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn’t just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren’t just a black issue.

In many poor countries, the problem is not so much individual thugs and rapists but an entire culture of sexual predation.

There isn’t a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

A Princeton University scholar, Susan Fiske, has used scans to show that the brains of high-achieving people see images of poor people and process them as if they were not humans but things.