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" 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
Police
Victim
Sacrifice
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" All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. "
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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. "
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Moment
Small
" When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy. "
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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. "
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Think
People
Fire
" I support a guaranteed basic income. I think we should take care of sick people. I believe women can make their own choices and that the government is at its best when it's building bridges instead of bombs. "
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Best
Government
" 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. "
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Do The Right Thing
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" The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable. "
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History
American
Problem
" No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused. "
Edward Snowden
Society
Any
System
" I don't want to harm my government. I want to help my government. But the fact that they are willing to completely ignore due process, they're willing to declare guilt without ever seeing a trial, these are things that we need to work against as a society and say, 'Hey, this is not appropriate.' "
Edward Snowden
Help
Government
Process
" It may be that by watching everywhere we go, by watching everything we do, by analyzing every word we say, by waiting and passing judgment over every association we make and every person we love, that we could uncover a terrorist plot, or we could discover more criminals. But is that the kind of society we want to live in? "
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Society
Waiting
Kind
" I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant. "
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Love
Rule
Law
" I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions. "
Edward Snowden
Understand
Suffer
Will
" What we've seen over the last decade is we've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance agency. And they've lost sight of the fact that everything they do is supposed to make us more secure as a nation and a society. "
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Work
Society
Sight
" Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded. "
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Being
Doing
Anything
" I'm an engineer, not a politician. "
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Engineer
Politician
" That's the beauty of the Internet is that we're no longer tied to our communities by physical connections. "
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Internet
Beauty
Connections
" What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing? "
Edward Snowden
Want
Question
Government
" I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight. "
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Spy
Almost
Been
" We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence. "
Edward Snowden
Influence
Government
Seen
" 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. "
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Government
Freedom
World
" The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together. "
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Israel
NSA
Wrote
" I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression. "
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People
Fight
War
" When you are in positions of privileged access... you see things that may be disturbing. Over time, that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up. "
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Time
Awareness
Things
" I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists. "
Edward Snowden
Chinese
Contact
Government
" Who I am really doesn't matter at all. If I'm the worst person in the world, you can hate me and move on. What really matters here are the issues. What really matters here is the kind of government we want, the kind of Internet we want, the kind of relationship between people and societies. "
Edward Snowden
I Am
World
Relationship
" 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. "
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Change
Me
Society
" If I had to describe myself, I wouldn't use words like 'hero.' I wouldn't use 'patriot,' and I wouldn't use 'traitor.' I'd say I'm an American and I'm a citizen, just like everyone else. "
Edward Snowden
Myself
Words
Say
" 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. "
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Impact
Turn
Transparency
" The public interest is not always the same as the national interest. Going to war with people who are not our enemy in places that are not a threat doesn't make us safe, and that applies whether it's in Iraq or on the Internet. The Internet is not the enemy. Our economy is not the enemy. "
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Enemy
War
People
" If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants. "
Edward Snowden
Data
You
Time