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During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

Bianca Jagger

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Bianca Jagger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 2
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Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías
Bianca Perez-Mora Macias
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The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.
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I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
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President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.
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A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.
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I don't want to wear what every other women wears. I won't be dictated to.
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I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
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I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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The killing of innocent people is always wrong.
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I have friends of mine who have died of AIDS and many of those friends...did not tell me until the very end...because they felt that there was a stigma, a taboo, attached to it...now we have more women infected with HIV/AIDS, many of those women were infected by their husbands who did not tell them
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I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.
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What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.
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There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.
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Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.
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I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
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There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
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I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
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Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.
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