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I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

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We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur
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You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
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It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
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In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.
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Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives
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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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Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.
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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.
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If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.
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One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot
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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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There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.
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Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.
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I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.
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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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The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
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I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.
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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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