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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.
Cynthia McKinney
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Cynthia McKinney
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 17
Faculty Member
Former United States Representative
Peace Activist
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Atlanta
Georgia
Cynthia Ann McKinney
Cynthia A. McKinney
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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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There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor of an anti-terrorism conference, because there are people who say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.
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It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.
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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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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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Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.
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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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The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.
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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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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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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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African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.
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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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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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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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Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'
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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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