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I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.

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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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Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
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Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health
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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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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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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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I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
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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 much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.
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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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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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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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In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
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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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The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
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