Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes

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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Book, Reading

  "What’s So Scary About Smart Girls?" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. May 10, 2014.

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• 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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  Prejudice, Information, Internet

  "Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. May 27, 2009.

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• I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

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  Thinking, Racist, Trump

  Fuente: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.

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  Powerful, Emotional, People

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Rights, Talking

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• Cuando se desarrolló la anestesia, durante muchas décadas se negó sistemáticamente a las mujeres que daban a luz, ya que se "suponía" que las mujeres debían sufrir. Una de las pocas sociedades que adoptó una postura contraria fue la tribu huichol de México. Los huicholes creían que el dolor del parto debía compartirse, así que la madre se agarraba a un cordel atado a los testículos de su marido. Con cada contracción dolorosa, ella daba un tirón al cordel para que el hombre compartiera la carga. Seguramente, si este mecanismo estuviera más extendido, las lesiones en el parto recibirían más atención.

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  Madre, Esposo, Dolor

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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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  Girl, Opportunity, Tragedy

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.18, Vintage

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• So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.

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  Girl, Teenage, Drama

  "Half The Sky: How to Change the World". Book by Nicholas D. Kristof, September 8, 2008.

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• Una vez creada una conexión de empatía, los argumentos racionales pueden desempeñar un papel de apoyo.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Juego, Empatía, Apoyo

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.

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  People, Distinction, Virtuous

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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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  Feet, Issues, Fire

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.

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  Believe, Struggle, Challenges

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.17, Vintage

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

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  Government, Needs, Literature

  "Guns, Politics And That Fake First Family: How To Create A Better World" by Cathy Chester, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2015.

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• There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

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  Black, Literature, Matter

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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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  Rights, Talking, People

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Tides, Beast, Burden

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.250, Vintage

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• ...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

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  Track, Environmental, Groups

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• It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

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  Diplomacy, Consistently

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

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  People, Stories, Literature

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• If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.

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  Country, Sri Lanka, Ddt

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• En los últimos 50 años han muerto más niñas, precisamente por ser niñas, que hombres en todas las guerras del siglo XX. Más niñas mueren en este rutinario genocidio en cualquier década que personas fueron masacradas en todos los genocidios del siglo XX. El equivalente a 5 aviones jumbo de mujeres mueren de parto cada día... el riesgo de muerte materna a lo largo de la vida es 1.000 veces mayor en un país pobre que en Occidente. Esto debería ser un escándalo internacional.

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  Girl, Country, War

  "Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide". Book by Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2008.

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

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  Years, Pet, World

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• In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!

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  Sex, Struggle, Long

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• One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.

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  Girl, Ideas, Issues

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

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  Genocidio

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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