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I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

Chelsea Manning

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Chelsea Manning
Age: 36
Born: 1987
Born: December 17
Activist
Computer Scientist
Intelligence Analyst
Soldier
Crescent
Oklahoma
Chelsea E. Manning
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning
Bradley Manning
Bradley Edward Manning
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If an organization produces a document, it should be made public as soon as possible.
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There are just too many opportunities - and an increasing number of them - to hide systemic, institutional wrongdoing behind legal veils, legal theories, and arbitrary exemptions. I hope that we can start to chip away at this, but it sure looks like society is still sliding in the opposite direction.
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Investigative journalism and reporting has become much more dangerous. This is especially true for journalists and sources in National Security - but it has been getting pretty bad for beat reporters and small outlets doing local reporting, too.
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It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions of one or two people and say, That's wrong!
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I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.
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I really don't care how I am perceived by people on the outside.
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Even if I didn't have the support that I have, I would still be fighting the same fights, and I would still be the same person that I am today.
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I think the embryonic digital world had the same affect on me as the openness of the old American frontier.
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Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society
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Donations to my legal defense fund really help, and I think keeping me motivated and spreading the message are also very important.
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There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics.
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On a transparency front, I would say that I certainly dream of a world in which our local, state, and national and international governments and other organizations have a 21st century, digital-era transparency built into them by default.
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While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone.
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I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today.
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I want people to see the truth.
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I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility).
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As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me.
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I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.
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I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.
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The press and free speech landscape has totally changed. There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream of - largely meaningless and speculative - analysis by sideline commentators and self-proclaimed experts.
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