Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia Ann McKinneyis an American politician and activist based in Georgia. As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first black woman elected to represent Georgia in the House. She left the Democratic Party and in 2008, ran as the Presidential candidate of the Green Party of the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 March 1955
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.
Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.
There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.
The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.
African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.
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.
In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.
Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.
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.