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I don’t want to wear what every other women wears. I won’t be dictated to.

Bianca Jagger

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 didn’t want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
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Citizens Class House
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
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
Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
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Members Privileged Suffering
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 think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
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Aware Politically Thinking
People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.
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Continue Country Doubt Leave Loss People
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 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
Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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States Terrorism Today
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
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
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Embargo Nicaragua Weakening
I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
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Country Government Nicaragua
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

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