I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
More Quotes from Nicholas D. Kristof:
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.Nicholas D. Kristof
If Africa could establish a clothing export industry, that would fight poverty far more effectively than any foreign aid program.
Nicholas D. Kristof
The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.
Nicholas D. Kristof
The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Recently President Bush struck down the Sudan Accountability Act, which would hold accountable those who perpetrated these atrocities.
Nicholas D. Kristof
A little bit of attention can go a long way.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.Adam Weishaupt
I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.
Boris Kodjoe
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
Jared Diamond