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The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

Bianca Jagger

People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
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Appreciate Courage Oppose People Politician
Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
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Members Privileged Suffering
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
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
We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.
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Committed Crime Suspect
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
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
Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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States Terrorism Today
The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That’s why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.
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Believe Help Innocent People Voice Voiceless
Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
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Difficult Interview
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
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.
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Freeze Leaving Photography Translation Written
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
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
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Embargo Nicaragua Weakening
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
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
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
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
Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.
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Effort Hype Media More Nation Point
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
I don’t think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
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Aware Politically Thinking
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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Country Different Media Told Years
Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn’t just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.
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Hippie Liberty Needs
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
I feel great identification with the developing world.
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Feels Identification World
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
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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Death Penalty Penalties United States

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