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I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Bianca Jagger

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Bianca Jagger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 2
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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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Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
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I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
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I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.
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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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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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Bradley Manning is an American hero.
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The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
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I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.
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We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.
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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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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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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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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 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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Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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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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I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
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