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" I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong. "
Cindy Sheehan
American
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" When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything. "
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" I never go anywhere and encourage people to get married to someone of the same gender or to have abortions - the issue never comes up. "
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" I think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, 'Don't associate with Cindy Sheehan.' People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country. "
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" We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done. "
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" I can't speak for the other people whose children have died, but I can speak for my family and the other members of Gold Star Families for Peace. We believe we're honoring our children by working for peace. "
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" Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence. "
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" The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese. "
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" I'm not a military strategist. "
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" I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it! "
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" I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled. "
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" I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it's been held by a long line of monsters. We don't have to support our administrations to love our country. "
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" We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy ... not for the real reason: because the Arab Muslims who attacked us hate our Middle Eastern foreign policy. "
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" I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war, and I'll never get him back. "
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" If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever. "
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" What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war? "
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" I'm just a regular mother who's trying to save lives and be the best human being I can be. "
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" Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff. "
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" I can imagine people in Third World countries looking at, you know, someone like Hillary Clinton raising $35 million for her presidential campaign that goes to really, you know, nonproductive means, and they see that, and they just - it's just really immoral, I believe. "
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" We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached. "
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" I have lost almost every friend that I had before Casey died. "
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" I don't - you know, I'm very disillusioned with our political system. If we don't wake up in America and realize that we have to vote out of our courage and integrity for candidates who reflect our own beatitudes, and not the beatitudes of the war machine and the corporations, we are - we're doomed. "
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" People who are against me attack me personally. They attack the way I look physically, they attack the way I dress, they attack everything but what I say. "
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" I take deep breaths and be true to my heart. "
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" I wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it. "
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" Looking back, all I can say is that the meeting with Bush was one of the most disgusting experiences in my life. "
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" I raised four kids in six years. "
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" I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way. "
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" The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice. "
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" 58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end. "
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" I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it. "
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