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Nicholas Kristof Quotes

American - Journalist | April 27, 1959 -

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

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Power Quest Our Public Self-Absorbed

Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.

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Choices Believe Poverty Bad Liberals

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.

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Food Problems Think Poverty Tax

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.

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School Child You Choice Knife Right

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them.

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Equality Believe Problem Injustice

The great divide is not between faiths, but one between intolerant zealots of any tradition and the large numbers of decent, peaceful believers likewise found in each tradition.

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Great Tradition Peaceful Numbers

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

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Positive Change Government Help You

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

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Conflict Seeing Month Where Victims

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

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Care Poor Rural Who Like Much

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.

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Water Bad Dying Hiding Where Most

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.

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Fear Women Drive Discrimination Wear

Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.

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Intolerance Example Divide Churches

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