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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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Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.
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