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" People demonize me; people idolize me; everything I say and do has been scrutinized. "
Cindy Sheehan
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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
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Reason
" 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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American
Responsibility
Government
" I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. "
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Liar
Truth
Always
" I think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention. "
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People
Jealous
Me
" 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. "
Cindy Sheehan
Say
Support
Country
" 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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My Life
Life
Looking
" 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
" 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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Lose
Country
People
" If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now. "
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American
War
Together
" I raised four kids in six years. "
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Six
Raised
Four
" We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for. "
Cindy Sheehan
Need
Fighting
Imperialism
" 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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Vote
War
Integrity
" '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. "
Cindy Sheehan
I Am
Mom
Think
" I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions. "
Cindy Sheehan
Military
Citizen
Just
" Isn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney is suing me? "
Cindy Sheehan
Media
Where
Tell
" 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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Trying
Just
Best
" Everything I say comes from my heart - and it's the truth. "
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Heart
Everything
" 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
Authority
" Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence. "
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Many
Know
San
" 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
Machine
" One of the things that pushed me over the edge was that people on the Left were calling me names. How many kicks in the teeth do you have to endure. "
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Edge
Endure
Teeth
" 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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People
Think
American
" I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it! "
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Ashamed
Going
Socialist
" My children were the center of my life. "
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Life
My Life
Were
" My son died for lies. "
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Son
Died
Lies
" 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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