In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing. It struck me as a better way to learn about a place, or at least a different way, than just going to interview the president. So I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. But I'm just amazed.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.