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I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.
- Edward Snowden
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I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.
- Edward Snowden
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#Hero
#Live
#Myself
#World
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
- Edward Snowden
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#Ignore
#Simply
I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.
- Edward Snowden
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You could watch entire villages and see what everyone was doing. I watched NSA tracking people's Internet activities as they typed. I became aware of just how invasive U.S. surveillance capabilities had become. I realized the true breadth of this system. And almost nobody knew it was happening.
- Edward Snowden
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#People
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Perhaps I am naive, but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.
- Edward Snowden
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#Freedom
#History
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Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.
- Edward Snowden
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#Scandal
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We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.
- Edward Snowden
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#Stand Up
#Way
You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.
- Edward Snowden
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#World
No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.
- Edward Snowden
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#Point
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#Surveillance
If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.
- Edward Snowden
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I would rather be without a state than without a voice.
- Edward Snowden
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I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.
- Edward Snowden
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#Live
#Society
#Support
#World
Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.
- Edward Snowden
#Anything
#Being
#Doing
#Even
#Wrong
Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you're risking, what you're bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn't hurt anybody else.
- Edward Snowden
#Do The Right Thing
#Law
#The Right Thing
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
- Edward Snowden
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#Government
#Transparency
I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.
- Edward Snowden
#Everything
#I Am
#Live
#Support
#World
I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.
- Edward Snowden
#Consultant
#Engineer
#Information
#Intelligence
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
- Edward Snowden
#Freedom
#Good
#Government
#Internet
#People
#World
Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone.
- Edward Snowden
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#Injustice
#Life
#Moment
#Person
Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.
- Edward Snowden
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#Government
#Mean
#Service
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