 The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column. |
| I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight. |
| A little bit of attention can go a long way. |
| The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing. |
| There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror. |
| The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there. |
| Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea. |
| The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity. |
| While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction. |
| 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. |
| The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month. |
| There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted. |
| It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case. |
| Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition. |
| I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. |
| I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership. |
| As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India. |
