Doesn’t it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there’s no such option for a gun? Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
When I was growing up, yearning with my pals to be a track star, one of our heroes was Bruce Jenner. He won a gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in the decathlon, and he adorned our Wheaties boxes. We all wanted to be Bruce Jenner. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children and 36 percent of white children. Indeed, a single parent is the new norm. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and construction workers get bitten by the same mosquitoes and sip from the same streams; there are none of the usual signals about socioeconomic status, for most hikers are in shorts and a T-shirt and enveloped by an aroma that would make a skunk queasy. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
