Top 33 Cindy Sheehan Quotes

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.

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

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

I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush’s war of terror on the world.

I’m not a military strategist.

I’ve always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

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.

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?

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.

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

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 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.

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.

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

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 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.

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.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

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’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.

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.

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.

I’m working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

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

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.

My son died for lies.

Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.

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.

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.

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.