Nicholas Donabet Kristof Quotes

United States, Journalist
April 27, 1959

Nicholas Donabet Kristof is an American journalist and political commentator. A winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he is a regular CNN contributor and has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001. Kristof is a self-described progressive. According to The Washington Post, Kristof "rewrote opinion journalism" with his emphasis on human rights abuses and social injustices, such as human trafficking and the Darfur conflict.

Also known as Political Commentator

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

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- Books
- Girls
- Extremism
A little bit of attention can go a long way.

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- Attention
- Long Way

Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

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- Role
- Empathy
- Arguments
America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

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

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In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

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- Care
- Talking
- Human Right
It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

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

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- Change
- Government
- Invade

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

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The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.

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- Leader
- Pressure
- Movement
Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices.

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