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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 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. "

Cindy Sheehan

Day

Wake Up

Today

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice. "

" I have lost almost every friend that I had before Casey died. "

" 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. "

" I was a Catholic youth minister for eight years... I'm not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic. "

" Looking back, all I can say is that the meeting with Bush was one of the most disgusting experiences in my life. "

" I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever. "

" 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. "

" My son died for lies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a military strategist. "

Cindy Sheehan

Military

Strategist

" People demonize me; people idolize me; everything I say and do has been scrutinized. "

" 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. "

" We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain. "

Cindy Sheehan

Great

Need

" I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions. "

" I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it! "

" My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny... You give my son back, and I'll pay my taxes. "

" 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. "

Cindy Sheehan

You

Authority

" 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? "

" Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power. "

" 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. "

" I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno. "

" What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war? "

" I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war, and I'll never get him back. "

" 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. "

" Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff. "

" 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. "