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Random violence is incredibly infectious
I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.
A little bit of attention can go a long way.
The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
It's important not to demonize [Donald's] Trump voters.
It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president
Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.
Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health
Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.
One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.
I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?
I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.
Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.
Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.
In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.
You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.
The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
I said that one can't stereotype [Donald] Trump voters anymore than they can anybody else.
I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight
Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.
In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur
Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.
...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction
America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.