It's important not to demonize [Donald's] Trump voters.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot

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.

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.

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.