In welcoming me, France would achieve a humanitarian but also probably symbolic gesture, sending encouragement to all the journalists and whistleblowers who, across the world, risk their lives on a daily basis in order to allow their fellow citizens to move another step closer to the truth.

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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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courage love character

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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money men years

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

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achieve justice way

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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We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying... I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.

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crush meaningful people

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

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censorship wikileaks doe

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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perception needs thinking

As editor of WikiLeaks, I am very proud of three things. Number one, we have never got it wrong in terms of what we say. A document is what it is. Number two, we have never revealed one of our sources ever. Number three, what are we proud of? We are proud that there is not a single instance of anyone coming into physical harm as a result of our publication.

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editors numbers two

Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it's costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. 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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agency running hands

If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.

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bad-ass war lying

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

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this-world knows world

Every War in the past 50 Years is a Result of Media Lies

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war lying past

The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.

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secret way

The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.

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internet tools civilization

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

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agency secret law

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

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community law people

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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opportunity mean thinking

Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

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uncomfortable messengers revealing

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.

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rulers ignorant over-you

It's the world without sunlight, but I haven't seen sunlight in so long, I don't remember it.

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remember long world