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Nicholas D. Kristof

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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.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


#poverty #service #education

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


— Nicholas D. Kristof


#womens-rights #faith

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


— Nicholas D. Kristof


#few #honduras #lanka #led #like

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


#absolutely nothing #child #dead #desert #heading

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


#drive #enough #got #guardian #i

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


— Nicholas D. Kristof


#before #children #diarrhea #die #diseases

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


#dangerous #go #i #i think #optimistic

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


#often #people #place #story #tell

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


#arrogant #be careful #blog #careful #combat

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


#aid #campaign #care #countries #distracted






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" Kristof praised the dismissal of the suit commenting that he was "really pleased that the judge recognized the importance of this kind of reporting" and that it was "terrific to have a judgment that protects journalism at a time when the press has had a fair number of rulings against it". Judge Hilton wrote that Kristof "made efforts to avoid implicating his guilt" and that "Mr. After covering the protests which resulted in some 500 deaths Kristof and WuDunn were shocked to learn that roughly 39000 Chinese girls died each year because they were not given the same access to food and medical care as boys.

Although Kristof has sometimes been criticized for highlighting human rights abuses in Africa Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has described Kristof as an "honorary African" for shining a spotlight on neglected conflicts. Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27 1959) 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.

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