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“It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Government #Should #Angry
“There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Law #Sometimes #American History
“Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Rights #Needs #Matter
“The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works”
-- Edward Snowden

#Government #Ideas #Encryption
“It's really hard to take that step-not only do I believe in something, I believe in it enough that I'm willing to set my own life on fire and burn it to the ground.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Believe #Fire #Steps
“We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back”
-- Edward Snowden

#Privacy
“Because, remember, I didnâ€™t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Giving #Want #Chance
“I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Government #Nsa #People
“Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President”
-- Edward Snowden

#Judging #President #Target
“America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Country #America #People
“Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be,”
-- Edward Snowden

#Want #Who We Are #Matter
“My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Nsa #Names #Done
“I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance to see these issues determined by open courts. Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans' rights. It is the first of many.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Rights #Light #Nsa
“In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Government #Whistleblowers #Administration
“I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Creativity #Intellectual #World
“Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Fall #Sacrifice #Rights
“My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Country #Names #Perspective
“I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Leader #Firsts #I Realized
“A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Growing Up #Children #Today
“Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Law #Humanity #Citizens
“What is right is not always the same as what is legal”
-- Edward Snowden

#Memorable
“The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Government #People #Granted
“We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Nsa #People #Watches
“When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Hands #Nsa #Three
“The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Nsa #Infrastructure
“And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Support #Willing
“I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded,”
-- Edward Snowden

#Creativity #Expression #World
“Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Government #People #Intimidating
“I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Believe #Way #Danger
“I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.”
-- Edward Snowden

#Who I Am #Done #Hiding

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