Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn’t just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.
BIANCA JAGGERI am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
More Bianca Jagger Quotes
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I feel great identification with the developing world.
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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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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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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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I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.
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When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.
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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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Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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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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There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. …
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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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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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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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