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.

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

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

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

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

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.