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I am not just a celebrity, I’m a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Bianca Jagger

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
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
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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Commitment Order Perseverance
The killing of innocent people is always wrong.
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Innocence Innocent People Person
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
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
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Embargo Nicaragua Weakening
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
Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn’t just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.
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Hippie Liberty Needs
I don’t think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.
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Aware Politically Thinking
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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Law Rights World
I don’t want to wear what every other women wears. I won’t be dictated to.
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Want Wears Women
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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Ambition Men Powerful Seconds
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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Country Indigenous Latin Rights Traditional
George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.
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Away Law Rights Walking
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
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Country Government Thinking
I feel great identification with the developing world.
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Feels Identification World

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