Quotes from Nicholas Kristof

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.

Random violence is incredibly infectious.

The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.

A little bit of attention can go a long way.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.