I don’t want to wear what every other women wears. I won’t be dictated to.
BIANCA JAGGERI 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.
More Bianca Jagger Quotes
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Bradley Manning is an American hero.
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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 don’t believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don’t believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.
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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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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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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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The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
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I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
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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 believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
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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’ve enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer’s program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O’Reilly. I will do it any time.
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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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In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
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People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
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