Top 34 Quotes by Nicholas D. Kristof

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.

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.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

A little bit of attention can go a long way.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.