Nicholas D. Kristof Talking Quotations

I've gotten dangerously close to the line by talking policy with politicians, by making direct appeals to readers to act. But lives are on the line.

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

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

If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.

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.