Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

There are 2-3 millions prostitutes in India, and although many of them now sell sex to some degree willingly, and are paid, a significant share of them entered the sex industry unwillingly.

In talking about misogyny and gender-based violence, it would be easy to slip into the conceit that men are the villains. But it's not true. Granted, men are often brutal to women. Yet it is women who routinely manage brothels in poor countries, who ensure that their daughter's genitals are cut, who feed sons before daughters, who take their sons but not their daughters to clinics for vaccination.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.