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During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
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Through the confessional system the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.
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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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Every War in the past 50 Years is a Result of Media Lies
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Hillary Clinton the centraliser that inter-connects all these different cogs.
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So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.
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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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I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.
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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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There are the Podesta emails we've been publishing. [John] Podesta is Hillary Clinton's primary campaign manager, so there's a thread that runs through all these emails there are quite a lot of pay-for-play, as they call it, giving access in exchange for money to states, individuals and corporations.
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To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
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Not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people fleeing Syria, the destabilisation of other African countries as a result of arms flows, but the Libyan state itself err was no longer able to control the movement of people through it.
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Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
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If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.
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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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