The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
BIANCA JAGGERGovernments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t want to wear what every other women wears. I won’t be dictated to.
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Bradley Manning is an American hero.
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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 am not just a celebrity, I’m a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
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Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
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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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Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war.
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I don’t think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
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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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