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It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
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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 it's dangerous to be optimistic.
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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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Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.
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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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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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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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In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
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Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.
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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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A little bit of attention can go a long way.
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There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted
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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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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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The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
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The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
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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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Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health
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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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