Cynthia McKinney Quotes

• We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

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  Teamwork, Wall, Powerful

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• Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.

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  War, People, Gathering

  "Run, Cynthia, run" by Derek Wall, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2008.

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• The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

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  Running, Government, People

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• If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.

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  Reality, Media, United States

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• What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.

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  Emotional, Israel, Attachment

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• Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.

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  Voice, People, Silence

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• How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation?

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  Country, Today, Problem

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• It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

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  Silence, Hearing, Administration

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• It is at this moment, when things appear so bleak that we must redouble our efforts and not give up. We must believe that we can remake the world in a more peaceful reality.

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  Giving Up, Believe, Reality

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• Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.

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  Country, Bankers, Dollars

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• The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

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  War, Average, Lasts

  "Former U.S. congresswoman McKinney speaks on state TV in Libya". www.cnn.com. May 22, 2011.

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• I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

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  Atlanta, America, Looks

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• Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

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  Eight, Rights, Years

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• African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

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  African American, Healthy, Littles

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• Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

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  Tolerance, Black, Levels

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• Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

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  Law, Voter Turnout, Voters

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• We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Kennedy. We don't really know who killed John Kennedy. We don't really know who killed Tupac Shakur.

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  Kings, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy

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• Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.

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  Mass Destruction, Silence, Weapons

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• What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.

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  Israel, Needs, Lines

  "Cynthia McKinney Blasts U.S. on Libya TV, and Pro-Israel Groups in Iran". www.theatlantic.com. May 23, 2011.

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• Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism.

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  Children, Military, War

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• Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.

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  Party, Healthy, Green

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• It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

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  Military, Giving, United States

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• I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

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  Believe, Issues, People

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• Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'

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  Not Afraid, Wells

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• To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people.

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  Taken, Land, Zimbabwe

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