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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.

Bianca Jagger

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 often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
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Country Government Nicaragua
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
Live interviews are more difficult to distort.
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Difficult Interview
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
Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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Government Law People
Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war.
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People Successful War
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
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 death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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Death Penalty Penalties United States
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
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
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
I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
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Believe Genocide Ongoing

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