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I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

Bianca Jagger

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
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Country Government Thinking
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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Commitment Order Perseverance
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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Government Justice People War
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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Different Forever Men
President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.
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Home Indicated Office Texas
Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
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Difficult Interview
I am not just a celebrity, I’m a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
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Lasts Rights Years
I don’t think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
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Aware Politically Thinking
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.
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Divorce Parent Years
Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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Government Law People
I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
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Country Government Nicaragua
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
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Embargo Nicaragua Weakening
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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Chaos Civil International Law Liberties State
Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.
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Community Hussein People
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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Different Leadership Principles Shoulder Turned
Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
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Members Privileged Suffering

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