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Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
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This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
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What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.
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People love WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption in their opponents. People oppose WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption or dangerous behavior in themselves.
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Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
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To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.
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I don't like the word transparency cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.
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The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined.
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WikiLeaks is a source protection organization. We are famous for never having exposed one of our sources over 10 years. That's why sources trust us and they come to us.
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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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Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
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