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

Bianca Jagger

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
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Members Privileged Suffering
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 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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Attacked Hiv Husband Infected Taboo Women
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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Commitment Human Issue Rights War
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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Forget Marriage Media Want
I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
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Believe Genocide Ongoing
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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Discovered Dream Equality Law
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
I don’t need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I’d much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real.
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Men Powerful Real
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
I am not just a celebrity, I’m a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
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Lasts Rights Years
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
Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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States Terrorism Today
Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war.
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People Successful War
People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
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Appreciate Courage Oppose People Politician
I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
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Country Government Nicaragua

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