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I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.

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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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The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.
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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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It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
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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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Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female
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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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Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.
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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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I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
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One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.
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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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Guilt-tripping people does not work they tend to be turned off.
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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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It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
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There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.
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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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All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
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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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