Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war.
BIANCA JAGGERGeorge W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.
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Bradley Manning is an American hero.
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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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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 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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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.
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People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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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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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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President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.
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The killing of innocent people is always wrong.
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I don’t think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
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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 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 want to wear what every other women wears. I won’t be dictated to.
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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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We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.
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I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
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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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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. …
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I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.
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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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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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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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