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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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Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
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As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
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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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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
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Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.
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I think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.
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I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.
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Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.
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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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We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.
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What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
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