Chelsea Manning

Privacy is not a luxury in America: it is a right - one that we need to defend in the digital realm…

— Chelsea Manning

Read everything. Ask your own questions. Be your own filter. Nobody is going to look at the world around you and tell…

— Chelsea Manning

I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a…

— Chelsea Manning

I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official…

— Chelsea Manning

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a skilled intelligence professional, everything looks like a vital source for…

— Chelsea Manning

I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was…

— Chelsea Manning

It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions…

— Chelsea Manning

The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a…

— Chelsea Manning

The fight for justice for the transgender community is largely invisible to our fellow citizens, despite the rampant systematic discrimination of trans…

— Chelsea Manning

Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically…

— Chelsea Manning

I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. When I…

— Chelsea Manning

I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but…

— Chelsea Manning

The insecurity that comes from being behind bars with, at best, imperfect oversight makes us all feel responsible only for ourselves. We…

— Chelsea Manning

After years of hiding and holding off because of the trial, I finally announced my intent to change my name and transition…

— Chelsea Manning

As outrageously counter-intuitive as this might seem, the most hardened terrorists and criminals are often extremely willing to brag about the terrible…

— Chelsea Manning

On a transparency front, I would say that I certainly dream of a world in which our local, state, and national and…

— Chelsea Manning

The U.S. intelligence community is in a very poor position to be trusted with protecting civil liberties while engaging in intelligence work.

— Chelsea Manning

The leaders of ISIS are canny strategists with a solid understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the West.

— Chelsea Manning

The one place I never felt at all comfortable in the military was in private circles of conversation. There's a tendency, especially…

— Chelsea Manning

As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington, D.C., club scene.

— Chelsea Manning

Suffrage is not a right afforded to everyone. Rather, voting is a privilege in the United States - and a hard-earned privilege…

— Chelsea Manning

We can work to get queer and trans people out of the prisons and jails and off the streets, and to improve…

— Chelsea Manning

I believe that when the public lacks even the most fundamental access to what its governments and militaries are doing in their…

— Chelsea Manning

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

The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions…

— Chelsea Manning

I think a lot of opportunities would have come easier to me if I had felt more comfortable and confident in my…

— Chelsea Manning

We are not safe and secure when the government uses us as pawns to perpetrate violence against others. Our safety and security…

— Chelsea Manning

Having a birthday around the holidays was never easy and, with every successive year, it felt more and more as if celebrating…

— Chelsea Manning

In my experience, working as an intelligence analyst with my own pool of sources numbering close to 100, by far the most…

— Chelsea Manning

I used to get these horrible feelings; like, I just wanted to rip my body apart, and I don't want to have…

— Chelsea Manning

Investigative journalism and reporting has become much more dangerous. This is especially true for journalists and sources in National Security - but…

— Chelsea Manning

I don't consider myself a 'radical.' Radical in American society has, I think, become this buzzword that makes a lot of ideas…

— Chelsea Manning

There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prision militar. Instead of the good and the bad,…

— Chelsea Manning

You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is…

— Chelsea Manning

For eight years, it did not matter how balanced President Obama was. It did not matter how educated he was or how…

— Chelsea Manning

I think the increased ubiquity of the internet and networked computing in general allowed me to have some tether no matter where…

— Chelsea Manning

I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of…

— Chelsea Manning

When I was a kid, I wanted to be in business or politics, like a CEO of a big corporation or a…

— Chelsea Manning

As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of…

— Chelsea Manning

On the night of 4 November 2008, Barack Obama was elected on a platform of 'hope' and 'change.' He was hailed as…

— Chelsea Manning