While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
From my perspective, the world's shaped me more than anything else. It's a feedback loop. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I think the embryonic digital world had the same affect on me as the openness of the old American frontier. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Transgender folks have been part of the push for LGBT equality from the beginning, and we've spoken with loud and intelligent voices… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I began to fear that I was forever going to be living in a hot desert cage, living as and being treated… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
While incarcerated, I had no bank statements, no bills, no credit history. In our interconnected world of big data, I appeared to… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me. I lived a few miles outside of… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
On a transparency front, I would say that I certainly dream of a world in which our local, state, and national and… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Read everything. Ask your own questions. Be your own filter. Nobody is going to look at the world around you and tell… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I think the increased ubiquity of the internet and networked computing in general allowed me to have some tether no matter where… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
We need to send a powerful message to the world in a unified voice: that we can fight for social justice for… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I think a lot of opportunities would have come easier to me if I had felt more comfortable and confident in my… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. When I chose to… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
I used to get these horrible feelings; like, I just wanted to rip my body apart, and I don't want to have to go… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
When I was a kid, I wanted to be in business or politics, like a CEO of a big corporation or a U.S. senator.… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
By December 2009, I had come to terms with my gender identity just as I was deployed to Iraq. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
I do not think that Caitlyn Jenner's transition was easy. Coming out and transitioning as a public figure - even for someone like her… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
Suffrage is not a right afforded to everyone. Rather, voting is a privilege in the United States - and a hard-earned privilege at that. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically transitioning to… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
The most important people for me, at least in the last couple of years since I came out, are my supersecret trans friends and… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
In the years preceding my imprisonment, I worked as a software programmer, designing and developing web interfaces, secure databases, and communication software; later, I… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
Even if I didn't have the support that I have, I would still be fighting the same fights, and I would still be the… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share
