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You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

Julian Assange

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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
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Even the U.S. government agrees that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIL, or ISIS.
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Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you
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The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.
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I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.
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The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.
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Hillary Clinton represents a whole network of people and a network of relationships with particular states.
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We have published about 800,000 documents of various kinds that relate to Russia. Most of those are critical and a great many books have come out of our publications about Russia, most of which are critical.
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Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.
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It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.
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I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.
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The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.
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The emails that give evidence of access for money and how Hillary Clinton herself benefited from this and how she is benefitting politically, are quite extraordinary.
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Over the last fifteen years, every single person the U.S. has tried to extradite from Sweden has been extradited, and they refuse to provide a guarantee [that won't happen].
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Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.
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That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth, and that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.
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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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I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.
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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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