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.
— Cindy Sheehan
I have lost almost every friend that I had before Casey died.
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.
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.
I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war, and I'll never get him back.
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.
People demonize me; people idolize me; everything I say and do has been scrutinized.
I take deep breaths and be true to my heart.
I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.
I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!
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.
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.
I'm not a military strategist.
If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.
Everything I say comes from my heart - and it's the truth.
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 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.
If I lived my life according to what Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh said about me, I would just stay in bed all day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My son joined the army to protect America, not Israel.
My son died for lies.
I raised four kids in six years.
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.
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.
I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.
We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.
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.
Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.
Recruiters in our country are known for lying to people.
My children were the center of my life.
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.
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.
Looking back, all I can say is that the meeting with Bush was one of the most disgusting experiences in my life.
'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.
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?
Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.
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.
I was a Catholic youth minister for eight years... I'm not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic.
Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.
One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.
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.
I'm just a regular mother who's trying to save lives and be the best human being I can be.
My husband has always agreed with me philosophically.
I think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.
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.
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.
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.
