America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.
Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.
In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.
Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?
It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.
Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.
Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices.
Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.
One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.
Random violence is incredibly infectious.
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.
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.
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.
We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous- it's that we're luckier.
Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
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