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

So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died, then people tend not to be receptive. But once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month