A Path Appears Quotes

“Let’s recognize that success in life is a reflection not only of enterprise and willpower but also of chance and early upbringing, and that compassion isn’t a sign of weakness but a mark of civilization.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

“Give parents the tools to nurture their child in infancy and the result will be a more self-confident and resilient individual for decades to come. It’s far less expensive to coach parents to support children than to maintain prisons years later.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

“Why does the United States spend more than $20 billion a year on farm programs but less than $4 billion a year on education and early care for children in the critical first two years of life? Are corn and soybeans really a higher priority for America’s future than our children?”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

“A Princeton University scholar, Susan Fiske, has used scans to show that the brains of high-achieving people see images of poor people and process them as if they were not humans but things.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

“Teaching in a village school in Nepal was a freaking piece of cake compared to teaching in my native land.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

“To be born poor in America today is to have a much smaller chance statistically of entering the middle class than was true a generation ago.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

“The child mortality revolution has used vaccines, treatments for diarrhea, micronutrients, and improved nutrition to reduce the number of child deaths worldwide each year from 20 million in 1960 to 6.6 million today—even as the number of children has risen.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

“Most studies find that each murder in America leads to costs of between $10 million and $12 million, including police and prison bills and social services for families of victims and perpetrators. The University of Chicago Crime Lab calculates that gun violence costs every Chicago household about $2,500 a year. Crime”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity