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.
BIANCA JAGGERDuring 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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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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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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I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
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I don’t think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
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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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I’ve enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer’s program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O’Reilly. I will do it any time.
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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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President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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