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There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.
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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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Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.
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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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Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles if it was a woman, she was likely raped if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.
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I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.
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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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There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.
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Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.
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We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.
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I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.
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In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
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The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
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The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month
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Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health
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