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Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
American Journalist
Born: Apr 27, 1959
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Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but the humanities should be a part of our repertory. They may not enrich our wallets, but they do enrich our lives. They civilize us. They provide context. Nicholas Kristof
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Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him. Nicholas Kristof
Faith Sometimes Religious About Both Generalizations Contained Beware Him Because Hinduism Equivalent Any Fanatic Racial Gandhi Who Amount Profiling
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised. Nicholas Kristof
Problems Feeling Those Bottom Inequality Leaving Causes Disenfranchised Creating Societies Marginalized
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. Nicholas Kristof
Education Girl Reading Society Books Extremism Threat More Drones Firing Powerful Missiles Force Terrified Because Reading Books Greatest Greatest Threat Transform Fanatics Why
One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the context of delivering services, and indeed that is part of their job, but advocacy is also getting governments to step up to the plate. They can also give more voice to those who don't have one. Nicholas Kristof
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Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and construction workers get bitten by the same mosquitoes and sip from the same streams; there are none of the usual signals about socioeconomic status, for most hikers are in shorts and a T-shirt and enveloped by an aroma that would make a skunk queasy. Nicholas Kristof
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Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax. Nicholas Kristof
Food Problems Poverty Think Other Worrying About Mental Self-Discipline Exert Leaves Tax Capacity Less Bills
Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization. Nicholas Kristof
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Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience. Nicholas Kristof
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If only meat weren't so delicious! Sure, meat may pave the way to a heart attack. Yes, factory farms torture animals. Indeed, producing a single hamburger patty requires more water than two weeks of showers. But for those of us who are weak-willed, there's nothing like a juicy burger. Nicholas Kristof
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Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum. Nicholas Kristof
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A little bit of attention can go a long way. Nicholas Kristof
Long Way Bit Long Way Attention Go Little Little Bit
There are very few things I've done just twice in my life, 40 years apart, and one is to backpack on the Pacific Crest Trail across the California/Oregon border. Nicholas Kristof
Life My Life Few Crest Backpack Border Years Trail Very Few Things Done Just Pacific Apart Across Twice Things
The great divide is not between faiths, but one between intolerant zealots of any tradition and the large numbers of decent, peaceful believers likewise found in each tradition. Nicholas Kristof
Great Intolerant Divide Between Likewise Faiths Tradition Any Decent Large Each Large Numbers Peaceful Found Believers Numbers
You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch. Nicholas Kristof
You Genocide Will Come Judged How Years Your Watch
Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain mired in the past. But when a country educates and unleashes women, those educated women often become force multipliers for good. Nicholas Kristof
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What use could the humanities be in a digital age? University students focusing on the humanities may end up, at least in their parents' nightmares, as dog-walkers for those majoring in computer science. But, for me, the humanities are not only relevant but also give us a toolbox to think seriously about ourselves and the world. Nicholas Kristof
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Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life. Nicholas Kristof
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One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do. I do think this is an area where journalism sometimes falls short. We describe a really grim situation but don't really explain to people what they can do about it. Nicholas Kristof
Work People Sometimes Situation Think Enough Complaints Tell About Area Journalism Readers Falls Often Short Where Biggest Explain Grim Them Really Describe
Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives. Nicholas Kristof
Food Bit Security Small Force Just Little Little Help Help Lives Save
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction. Nicholas Kristof
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The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month. Nicholas Kristof
Conflict Month Darfur Seeing Per Could Where Victims
Random violence is incredibly infectious. Nicholas Kristof
Random Incredibly Infectious Violence
In Angola, I visited 'HeroRats' that have been trained to sniff out land mines (and, in some countries, diagnose tuberculosis). In a day, they can clear 20 times as much of a minefield as a human, and they work for bananas! Nicholas Kristof
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There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so well with Dick Cheney. Nicholas Kristof
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It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nicholas Kristof
Time Wrong Time Maddening Born Simply Wrong Wrong Place Because Were Children Dying Place Travels Watch
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