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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

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Samantha Power
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 21
Diplomat
Director For Multilateral Affairs
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Pedagogue
Writer
London
England
Samantha Jane Power
Samantha J. Power
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.
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Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.
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My second epiphany came as an intern at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The man I worked for was consumed with what was going on in Bosnia. And the more I knew [about it] the more saddened I was. There were these images of emaciated men behind barbed wire.... It was like, I've got to find a way to do something.
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