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Chelsea Manning Quotes
Chelsea Manning Quotes
Chelsea Manning
American
Criminal
Born:
Dec 17
,
1987
Me
Military
People
Time
World
You
Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically transitioning to the woman I have always been - I manage not only to survive, but to grow, learn, mature, and thrive as a better, more confident person.
Chelsea Manning
Struggle
Woman
Legal
Better
Long
Thrive
Every
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Battles
More
Only
Physically
Through
Learn
Always
Been
Subjected
Mature
Survive
Person
Manage
Confident
Confinement
To Survive
Confronted
Transitioning
Grow
Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.
Chelsea Manning
Patriotism
Power
Cries
Soldier
Those
Out
Carry
Logically
Some
Morally
Given
Drown
Mission
Cry
Questionable
American
Any
Often
Order
Based
Acts
Let's protect sensitive sources. Let's protect troop movements. Let's protect nuclear information. Let's not hide missteps. Let's not hide misguided policies. Let's not hide history. Let's not hide who we are and what we are doing.
Chelsea Manning
History
Hide
Troop
Misguided
Protect
Policies
Doing
Sources
Movements
Information
Sensitive
Who
Nuclear
We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in.
Chelsea Manning
Live
Recognized
Able
Human
Human Beings
Should
Beings
Societies
I disagree with Apple on many things - such as its exclusive use of proprietary software and arbitrary restrictions on users seeking to copy, share, edit, and create software on their devices. However, I strongly feel that defending its users' and customers' right to strong encryption in court is incredibly important.
Chelsea Manning
Strong
Disagree
Important
Incredibly
Software
Arbitrary
Seeking
Strongly
Restrictions
Share
Proprietary
Feel
Exclusive
Devices
Court
Edit
However
Encryption
Customers
Create
Use
Users
Many
Apple
Right
Things
Copy
Defending
I believe that when the public lacks even the most fundamental access to what its governments and militaries are doing in their names, then they cease to be involved in the act of citizenship.
Chelsea Manning
Believe
I Believe
I Believe That
Citizenship
Names
Most
Involved
Access
Doing
Cease
Governments
Lacks
Public
Then
Act
Even
Fundamental
There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prision militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repeticion - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing.
Chelsea Manning
Good
Few
Distinctions
Bad
Boring
Instead
Between
La
Repetitive
Very
Endless
Routine
Numbing
On the night of 4 November 2008, Barack Obama was elected on a platform of 'hope' and 'change.' He was hailed as a 'uniter' in an age of 'dividers.' I experienced a political awakening that night. I watched as the hope that President Obama represented was tempered by the shocking passage of Proposition 8 by a majority of voters in California.
Chelsea Manning
Hope
Change
Age
Political
November
President
President Obama
Hope And Change
Obama
Tempered
Proposition
He
Voters
Majority
California
Passage
Shocking
Experienced
Barack
Barack Obama
Elected
Awakening
Platform
Watched
Night
We need to send a powerful message to the world in a unified voice: that we can fight for social justice for everyone, everywhere, and change the world, not just get married. We can continue to build our communities and address the root causes of queer and trans poverty and deaths.
Chelsea Manning
Justice
Change
Fight
World
Poverty
Build
Change The World
Everyone
Our
Address
Everywhere
Married
Voice
Powerful
Message
Causes
Continue
Queer
Deaths
Get
Get Married
Send
Just
Social
Unified
Root
Social Justice
Communities
Need
Health care is something that prisoners have a right to, you know? They don't get to pick and choose whether or not you get this health care plan and this health care plan. It's provided to you by the prison. The prison has a responsibility to provide you with necessary health care, and trans health care is necessary.
Chelsea Manning
Health
You
Care
Responsibility
Prison
Something
Pick
Pick And Choose
Know
Health Care
Prisoners
Provide
Provided
Get
Whether
Plan
Choose
Right
Necessary
In my experience, working as an intelligence analyst with my own pool of sources numbering close to 100, by far the most effective forms of human intelligence collection are rapport-building and direct questioning.
Chelsea Manning
Experience
Intelligence
Own
Pool
Analyst
Collection
Direct
My Own
Most
Sources
Effective
Questioning
Close
Human
Forms
Far
Human Intelligence
Working
When you're a kid dreaming, anything seems possible.
Chelsea Manning
You
Kid
Possible
Dreaming
Seems
Anything
Privacy is not a luxury in America: it is a right - one that we need to defend in the digital realm as much as in the physical realm.
Chelsea Manning
Privacy
Luxury
Digital
Physical
America
Much
Realm
Right
Defend
Need
We can work to get queer and trans people out of the prisons and jails and off the streets, and to improve our access to housing, education, employment and gender-confirming healthcare.
Chelsea Manning
Work
Education
People
Our
Out
Employment
Housing
Access
Healthcare
Prisons
Queer
Off
Improve
Get
Jails
Streets
Counter-insurgency warfare is not a simple thing... it's not as simple as, like, good guys versus bad guys. It is a mess.
Chelsea Manning
Good
Simple
Bad
Bad Guys
Guys
Simple Thing
Like
Mess
Versus
Warfare
Thing
Good Guys
Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time.
Chelsea Manning
Time
Black
First
Military
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Black Hole
First Time
Arriving
Camp
Kuwait
May
Jail
Confinement
After
Hole
Placed
I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction. I understand that the various collateral consequences of the court-martial conviction will stay on my record forever. I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the U.S.D.B. as the person I was born to be.
Chelsea Manning
Life
I Am
Will
My Life
First
Conviction
Live
Consequences
I Was Born
Collateral
Stay
Record
Born
Pardon
Various
Outside
Merely
Understand
Am
Forever
Person
Asking
Chance
I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, I think it's safe to say.
Chelsea Manning
Think
I Think
Say
Bit
Adrenaline
Safe
Owning my identity... ties into my value of dignity.
Chelsea Manning
Dignity
Value
Identity
Ties
Owning
I came out publicly as transgender and began hormone replacement therapy while in prison. When I was released, however, there was no quantifiable history of me existing as a transwoman. Credit and background checks automatically assumed I was committing fraud.
Chelsea Manning
Me
History
Prison
Transgender
Assumed
Background
Released
Out
Fraud
I Came
Checks
Came
However
Existing
Began
Replacement
Committing
Automatically
While
Therapy
Publicly
Credit
In 2010, the iPhone was only three years old, and many people still didn't see smartphones as the indispensable digital appendages they are today. Seven years later, virtually everything we do causes us to bleed digital information, putting us at the mercy of invisible algorithms that threaten to consume our freedom.
Chelsea Manning
Today
Freedom
People
Old
Digital
Three
Mercy
Virtually
Our
Seven
Everything
Later
See
Threaten
Only
Indispensable
Consume
Putting
Bleed
Invisible
Still
Causes
iPhone
Years
Information
Us
Many
I am Chelsea Manning. I am female.
Chelsea Manning
I Am
Female
Chelsea
Am
The one place I never felt at all comfortable in the military was in private circles of conversation. There's a tendency, especially among young men, to objectify and denigrate women behind closed doors.
Chelsea Manning
Conversation
Women
Men
Closed
Young
Doors
Military
Circles
Tendency
Never
Comfortable
Felt
Private
Denigrate
Closed Doors
Behind
Place
Young Men
Among
We need to stop hoping that our systems will right themselves. We need to actually take the reins of government and fix our institutions. We need to save lives by making change at every level.
Chelsea Manning
Government
Change
Will
Every
Our
Systems
Hoping
Take
Institutions
Making
Fix
Stop
Themselves
Lives
Reins
Actually
Right
Level
Need
Save
I don't consider myself a 'radical.' Radical in American society has, I think, become this buzzword that makes a lot of ideas and discussions seem foreign or new to people - whether for or against them. Is it radical to seek justice? Is it radical to be rescued by love? Is it subversive to be sweet?
Chelsea Manning
Love
Myself
Justice
Love Is
People
Become
Sweet
Radical
Think
Society
Consider
I Think
Seek
Seem
New
Ideas
Makes
Foreign
Lot
Discussions
American
Whether
Against
Subversive
Them
American Society
Rescued
The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions of the executive branch, and to promote the integrity and transparency of the U.S. government.
Chelsea Manning
Government
Needs
Integrity
Free
Free Press
Free Speech
Press
Promote
U.S. Government
Protect
Executive
Executive Branch
Branch
Legislation
Public
Transparency
Actions
Right
Speech
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