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" I'm not a military strategist. "
Cindy Sheehan
Military
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" No one can sustain rage for long. I am still angry and always will be. My dear son was stolen from me and his family to never return. He was killed for profit and lies. How can I not be angry? Sometimes though, the rage comes back. "
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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. "
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" I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent. "
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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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" One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo. "
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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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" Everything I say comes from my heart - and it's the truth. "
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" I have lost almost every friend that I had before Casey died. "
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" Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through. "
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" I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire. "
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Think
American
" 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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Children
Believe
" My husband has always agreed with me philosophically. "
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Always
Husband
" 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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Way
Reason
Happy
" If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say. "
Cindy Sheehan
Start
Peace
Peaceful
" Recruiters in our country are known for lying to people. "
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Known
Country
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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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You
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Growing Up
" 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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Hate
Policy
Reason
" 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. "
Cindy Sheehan
Prison
Need
Done
" It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison. "
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You
Us
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" 'Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the solutions long before the Occupy Movement. I think it's a great organic class analysis. "
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" I was a Catholic youth minister for eight years... I'm not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic. "
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Youth
" We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain. "
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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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" 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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Way
" So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about. "
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Serving
Know
" The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats. "
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Because
Democrats
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" I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it! "
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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 I lived my life according to what Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh said about me, I would just stay in bed all day. "
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