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One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

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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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The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month
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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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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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Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
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Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.
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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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It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
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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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Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives
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Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health
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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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The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
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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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Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
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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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The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
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