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" Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay. "
Nicholas Kristof
Civil Rights
Gay
Rights
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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
Short
Journalism
People
" I suspect unconscious bias has been far more of a factor for President Obama than overt racism and will also be a challenge for Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for president again. "
Nicholas Kristof
Challenge
Bias
She
" Ben Affleck exec-produced a documentary for HBO called 'Reporter' about my 2007 win-a-trip journey. I take the trip each year partly to encourage young people to think about global humanitarian issues: I think blogs by a student may be more compelling for that audience than my own work. "
Nicholas Kristof
Journey
Think
Work
" In effect, Saudi Arabia legitimizes fundamentalism, religious discrimination, intolerance and the oppression of women. Saudi women not only can't drive, but are also told by some clerics that they mustn't wear seatbelts for fear of showing the outlines of their bodies. "
Nicholas Kristof
Fear
Drive
Women
" Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday. "
Nicholas Kristof
News
Happened
Business
" We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents and grandparents. Blacks were shackled for the early part of that relay race, and although many of the fetters have come off, whites have developed a huge lead. "
Nicholas Kristof
Parents
Early
Stand
" A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. "
Nicholas Kristof
American Dream
Education
American
" One of my frustrations is that we in society generally have this bifurcation in how we see the world. That's probably a little less true with business audiences, but in general, there tends to be this view that for-profit companies are greedy, and nonprofits are noble. It's absolutely more complicated than that. "
Nicholas Kristof
World
Business
Society
" The best escalator to opportunity in America is education. "
Nicholas Kristof
America
Opportunity
Best
" The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith. "
Nicholas Kristof
Temple
Place
India
" Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends. "
Nicholas Kristof
Help
World
Nature
" When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children. "
Nicholas Kristof
Family
Planning
Poor
" 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
Twice
Life
Done
" 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
Human
Land
Work
" 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
Animals
Burger
Heart
" However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we rather subsidize opportunity or yachts? Which kind of subsidies deserve more scrutiny? "
Nicholas Kristof
Rich
Suffering
Opportunity
" Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it. "
Nicholas Kristof
Selfish
Behavior
Impossible
" The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison. "
Nicholas Kristof
America
Prison
Out
" I was the first blogger on the Times's website. That happened during the Iraq war, when I wanted an outlet for the things I was seeing every day that couldn't fit into just two columns a week. Then I became interested in using multimedia, specifically as a way to engage young people. "
Nicholas Kristof
Day
Every Day
People
" My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife's grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States. "
Nicholas Kristof
American
Wife
Father
" I can't help thinking that if the American West were discovered today, the most glorious bits would be sold off to the highest bidder. Yosemite might be nothing but weekend homes for Internet tycoons. "
Nicholas Kristof
Thinking
Today
Weekend
" 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
End
Science
Think
" Maybe our best family trip started at Victoria Falls, which drenches you with spray and is so vast that it makes Niagara Falls seem like a backyard creek. Then we rented a car and made our way to Hwange National Park, which was empty of people but crowded with zebras, giraffes, elephants and more. "
Nicholas Kristof
Way
People
Family
" Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist Asia that set records for mass slaughter. "
Nicholas Kristof
Islam
Religion
Out
" It is so much easier to try to help a six-month-old child or a six-year-old child than it is a 16-year-old troubled kid. "
Nicholas Kristof
Try
Help
Kid
" Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches. "
Nicholas Kristof
Example
Intolerance
Divide
" I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and packed fruit, and discovered that red wine can be a breakfast drink. That led to further travel as a university student. "
Nicholas Kristof
Myself
Travel
School
" Sure, food stamps are occasionally misused, but anyone familiar with business knows that the abuse of food subsidies is far greater in the corporate suite. Every time an executive wines and dines a hot date on the corporate dime, the average taxpayer helps foot the bill. "
Nicholas Kristof
Food
Time
Hot
" Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a child is read to or hugged. "
Nicholas Kristof
Poverty
Best
Remember
" Conservatives are, I think, correct to highlight family stability as a fundamental issue that goes to the welfare of children as much as food stamps or anything else. "
Nicholas Kristof
Children
Food
Family