Bianca Jagger Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.

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

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  I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

   

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• I don’t think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

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• I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

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• 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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• I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

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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.

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• Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.

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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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• 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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• I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

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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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