Nicholas D. Kristof Quotes

You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn’t leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

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

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren’t actually angry at the president about inaction.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.