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Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Alone Amount Away Because Big Consequences Crossed Each Each Individual Every Individual Inequality Inhumanity Injustice Intimidating Life Limit Line Longer Looked Moment Person Remembers Seemed Small Some Tolerate Too Where Witnessed

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I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Across Any Anything Being Communicate Each Enjoyed Figures Freedom Grew Judged Lines Lived Measured Mention Other People Privacy Public Sort Systems Time Travels Understanding Up Where Without World

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Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Above Adversaries Being Constitution Countries Country Countrymen Else Foreign Foreign Countries Government Knowing Mean Means Patriot Protect Service Those Violations Your

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I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn over, because harming people isn't my goal. Transparency is.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Because Big Big Impact Carefully Document Documents Each Ensure Every Goal Harming Impact Interest Made Over People Public Public Interest Single Sort Transparency Turn Would

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Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you're risking, what you're bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn't hurt anybody else.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Anybody Anybody Else Anyone Anyone Else Break Bringing Civil Detriment Disobedience Do The Right Thing Does Else Hurt Key Law Make Onto Right Right Thing Risking Serve Sometimes Sure Terms The Right Thing Thing You Yourself

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If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Access Analyst Anything Cell Cell Phone Cia Databases Email Enter Etc Get Id Number Phone Phone Number Raw Results Same User Want Fbi Nsa

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No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Abuse Any Been Existed Know Mass Point Society Surveillance System

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I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Am Because Done Hiding Intention Know No Intention Nothing Who Wrong I Am

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There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Example Faith Government Highest Offices Our Scrutiny Setting Should Transparency

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That's the beauty of the Internet is that we're no longer tied to our communities by physical connections.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Beauty Communities Connections Internet Longer Our Physical Tied

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: June 21st, 1983

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