Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney speaks at the R-eCreate '68 rally outside the DNC on Sunday, August 24, 2008.

Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente ask the Chicago Presidential Nominating Convention for the Green Party Nomination on Saturday, July 12th.

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Speaking Truth requires a Courage few candidates for public office have demonstrated in this campaign season. It's the deepest expression of Patriotism for one's country.

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Billy and Leola McKinney talk about their daughter Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney. Billy Mckinney talks to Herbert Dennard about how he would take his daughter with him to Civil Rights rallies when she was a child.

While Bush celebrated the birth of Israel with a speech before the Knesset in Tel Aviv, on May 16th, 2008, Cynthia McKinney joined many others to speak at the al-Nakbah Commemoration in the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza before the United Nations in New York. al-Nakbah annually commemorates the tragedy of the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people by the state of Israel.

These are her remarks:

I hope by now it is clear. Our values will never be reflected in public policy as long as our political parties and our country remain hijacked.

Hijacked by false patriots who usurp the applause of the people and all the while betray our values.

I've decided that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans will operate any longer as business as usual -- not in my name.

That Democrats and Republicans will use my tax dollars and betray my values , not one day longer -- not in my name.

That neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have earned my most precious political asset -- my vote.

And that now is the time to do some things I've never done before in order to have some things I've never had before.

And so here today, I declare my independence from weapons transfers: including Apache Helicopters; F'16s; sidewinder, hellfire, and Stinger missiles.

I declare my independence from occupation, demolished homes, political prisoners, and babies dying at checkpoints.

I declare my independence from UN vetoes, expropriated land, stolen resources, and the installation of puppet regimes.

I declare my independence from all forms of dehumanization and am not afraid to speak truth to power.

Cynthia McKinney visted Chicago in December of 2007 and gave this address at an awards dinner.