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The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there. (Nicholas D. Kristof)
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. View quote
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Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization. View quote
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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. View quote
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The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity. View quote
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Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition. View quote
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The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column. View quote
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Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea. View quote
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I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership. View quote
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I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight. View quote
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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. (Nicholas D. Kristof)
I think we in the mainstream media - especially cable television - sometimes bungled coverage of Trump. There was too much uncritical television coverage of Trump because he was good for ratings; then there was not enough investigation of his business dealings, racism and history of sexual assaults, and too much false equivalency that equated the two candidates as equally flawed. More broadly, we in the mainstream media are out of touch with working-class America; we spend too much time chatting up senators, and not enough visiting unemployed steel workers. Yet for all of our sins in the mainstream media, these alt-right websites are both far more pernicious and increasingly influential. View quote
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Early signs of what the Trump administration may look like: A man associated with white supremacy and misogyny will be White House chief strategist; a man rejected for a judgeship because of alleged racism will be attorney general; and an Islamophobe who has taken money from Moscow will be national security adviser. No, this is not satire. View quote
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One takeaway from this astonishing presidential election is that fake news is gaining ground, empowering nuts and undermining our democracy. View quote
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At one level, this movement on behalf of oppressed farm animals is emotional ... Yet the movement is also the product of a deep intellectual ferment pioneered by the Princeton scholar Peter Singer. ... This idea popularized by Professor Singer - that we have ethical obligations that transcend our species - is one whose time appears to have come. ... What we're seeing now is an interesting moral moment: a grass-roots effort by members of one species to promote the welfare of others. ... animal rights are now firmly on the mainstream ethical agenda. View quote
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Look, Trump has been elected, he will be our president and he has the right to choose conservatives. But instead of turning to the many principled Republicans available, he seems drawn to hotheads and bigots, embarrassing himself and our nation. View quote
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As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India. View quote
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Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments. View quote
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Since 9/11, I've spent way too much of my time in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria and Libya, and the U.S. approach in dealing with those security problems has been to rely on the military toolbox and blow things up. We've seen that that's a very expensive toolbox, and I think we've underinvested in the women's empowerment toolbox and the education toolbox, which are also imperfect but are also powerful tools to bring about change. View quote
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There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror. View quote
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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. (Nicholas D. Kristof)