Nicholas Kristof Quotes

real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.

Camping is something I've done all my life.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

I'm most passionate about anything to do with nature and the simple things. I love taking walks with my family or my friends and seeing nature. And that's why I love living where I live because I live up in the desert area in the mountains.

My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping.

I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.

I don't like Las Vegas. I'd rather be mountain biking or climbing.

I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

I have gone to the forest.

We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

Our aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispension in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights, treatment and opportunity in every sphere of endeavour—constitutional, social and economic.

Friends, we are all Indians no matter how white or dark you are. It doesn't make any difference where you are, what you are doing, or how much money you are making. We are all Indians.

It is important that there be a uniform, equal citizenry, evenly distributed over the various provinces of the island, and free from extremes in wealth and poverty. His intention, as he phrases it, is “not completely to destroy private property, since this is impossible, but to enclose it within more narrow boundaries, to give it a measure, a rule, a bridle which restrains it, which directs it, which subdues it, and always keeps it subordinate to the public good.

I have tried to suggest that injustice is not necessary economic -- that the economics can work, and has often worked, when the constituency for it is animated. The politics of equality -- that is a little harder.

Besides what I do, I love fishing; I love bringing my children to the forest, getting outdoors in nature. Get outside, people! Stop looking at screens.

When you see a country take care of its people regardless of class, or how much money they make, or what color they are, that's pretty inspiring.

A few years after that first visit, I applied for a job in Yosemite.

I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.

From an early age, Yosemite became the centre of my universe. I've been going every summer since I was a child. I love everything about that place: waterfalls, high-quality rock, history.