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If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: About Cheney Citizen Class Dick Cheney Finished Had High High School How Kind School Taught Worries Would

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Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Because Become Does Instead Okay Only Simply Surveillance World

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I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don't realize it.

~Edward Snowden

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For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

~Edward Snowden

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All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Able Governed How Left Long Long Time Long Time Ago Milestone Public Say Time Wanted

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I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Rather State Than Voice Without Would

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It's been vindicating to see the reaction from lawmakers, judges, public bodies around the world, civil liberties activists who have said it's true that we have a right to at least know the broad outlines of what our government's doing in our name and what it's doing against us.

~Edward Snowden

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You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If we sacrifice our values because we're afraid, we don't care very much about those values.

~Edward Snowden

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I think it's important to remember that people don't set their lives on fire. They don't walk away from their extraordinarily, extraordinarily comfortable lives ... for no reason.

~Edward Snowden

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Even though we may focus first on the rights of our own country, that does not mean that we should disregard the rights of everyone else.

~Edward Snowden

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: June 21st, 1983

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