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Nicholas D. Kristof
American
Writer
About the author
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.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Sense
#Americans
#Murder
The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Conflict
#Victims
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Talk
#People
#Will
#Fact
#Travel
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Television
#Media
#Silence
#News
The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Now
#People
#Children
#War
#Killing
#Zone
#African
The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#People
#Public
#Thought
#Congress
#Soldiers
#African
The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#President
#Population
#Health
#Hospitals
The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Food
#World
#Pet
There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Time
#Living
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.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#People
#Nothing
#President
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
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 D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#President
#Americans
#Inaction
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Government
#Positive
#Help
#Change
You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Will
#Years
#Genocide
You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn't leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#People
#Being
#Men
#Danger
#Women
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#World
#Women
#Neglect
#Pregnancy
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Anger
#Women
#Horror
#Medical
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Children
#Age
#Poverty
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Countries
#Mortality
A little bit of attention can go a long way.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Attention
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,
American
Writer
#Poor
#Abortion
#Politics
#Care
#Countries
I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Wrong
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,
American
Writer
#Old
#Job
Random violence is incredibly infectious.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Violence
I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#People
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,
American
Writer
One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Family
#Men
#Parents
#Talking
#Water
It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Name
#Remarkable
It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#President
#Blame
#Republicans
Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Security
#Food
#Help
#Force
Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Water
#Dying
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Right
#Health
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#Poor
#Care
#Countries
If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.
Nicholas D. Kristof,
American
Writer
#President
#Cancer
#France
#African
#Genocide
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,
American
Writer
#Nothing
#Night
#Husband