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Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

Julian Assange

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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
Business Executive
Computer Scientist
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Journalist
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Television Director
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Julian Paul Assange
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Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.
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Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.
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The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.
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A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.
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Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
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And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.
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There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.
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That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign], the Ecuadorian election is in February next year, and you have the White House feeling the political heat as a result of the true information that we have been publishing.
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There's more than 1700 emails out of the thirty three thousand Hillary Clinton emails that we've published, just about Libya. It's not that Libya has cheap oil. She perceived the removal of [Muammar] Gaddafi and the overthrow of the Libyan state - something that she would use in her run-up to the general election for President.
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The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.
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My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.
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If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.
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Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.
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If you were following the [Barack] Obama campaign back then, closely, you could see it had become very close to banking interests. So I think you can't properly understand Hillary Clinton's foreign policy without understanding Saudi Arabia.
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What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.
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If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn't be doing and whether you are playing according to god's rules.
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realisation dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.
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In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.
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It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.
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Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.
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