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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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I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.
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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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The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
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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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Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
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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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China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and child marriage, and now it's one of the better places. So I really do feel that we're on the right side of history here.
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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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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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...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
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One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.
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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
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While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction
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It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
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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 think it's dangerous to be optimistic.
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One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.
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