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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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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
Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war.
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People Successful War
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
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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Believe Interview Lobbying Share Views
I don’t want to wear what every other women wears. I won’t be dictated to.
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Want Wears Women
Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
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Difficult Interview
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 don’t think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
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Aware Politically Thinking
George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
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Country Hussein World
I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
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Country Government Nicaragua
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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Believe Leader Peaceful
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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Country Indigenous Latin Rights Traditional
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
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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Ambition Men Powerful Seconds
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
Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I’ve been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.
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Country Models Philosophy Role

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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