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A little bit of attention can go a long way.

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In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.
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Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.
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If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.
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I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.
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I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
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In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.
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If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.
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Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.
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One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.
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In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.
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Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
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The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.
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Guilt-tripping people does not work they tend to be turned off.
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The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
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I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.
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The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding
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It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
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...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
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The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.
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I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.
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