Nicholas Kristof Quotes

Your not going to change the hearts and minds. You have to change to law.

Change the narrative, change the laws.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

Moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law.

To protect the environment, you have to work from the outside, not the inside.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law.

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

We should put this one-man show behind us. Instead of talking about individuals we should at last be talking about institutions and laws.

Experience has shown that no civil right has ever been secured without legislation.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'

There's many law changes, policy changes I can point to. But a lot of my work has also been to name the issue that no one else named - to spotlight it, to advocate for it. That's where all advocacy begins. I've asked different questions. I've raised different issues.

When I became minister for employment, that was my ideal job because it meant I was able to reflect on what I saw growing up and actually try to change it.

I want to be at least part of the change in Congress.

The Government has correctly recognised that this E.U. law cannot all be changed into domestic law at once.

If we want our laws to change, we need to elect people who are willing to change them.

We can get rid of all the plastic bags and plastic straws in the world - and we need to - but nothing is going to get better until we can make the people at the top see that there are changes to be made.

Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate.

I thought I could make change by just working at ground level, but to change a community, you have to change policies.