Bianca Jagger Quotes

• We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

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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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• Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

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• Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

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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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• The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

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• The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

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• The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

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• 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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• The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

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• The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

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• 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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• 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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• President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.

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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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  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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• 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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• Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

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• Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

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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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Bianca Jagger (46)

Birth:	2nd May, 1945
Nationality:	Nicaraguan
Profession:	Lawyer

About

Jagger was born in Managua, Nicaragua. Her father was a successful import-export merchant and her mother a housewife. They divorced when Bianca was ten and she stayed with her mother, who had to take care of three children on a small income. She received a scholarship to study political science in France at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. She has also been influenced by Gandhi's non-violent success and the eastern philosophy at large. She traveled extensively in India.

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