Citizens Quotes by Edward Snowden

16 Citizens quotes by Edward Snowden

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Snowden’s perspective on the modern citizen is rooted in digital rights and government transparency. Across 16 statements he lays out why vigilance and informed participation matter more than ever.

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Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement…

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The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

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Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

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Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

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We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.

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In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to…

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You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its…

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Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet…

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There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going…

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Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to…

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The question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our…

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Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and…

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Russia recently passed a law - I think a terrible law - which says you have to store all of the data…

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It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and…

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Microsoft is in a court battle with the Department of Justice. The DOJ is saying, "We want information from your data center…

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When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I'm grateful that I allowed her to…

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It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

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If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political…

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The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

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[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data…

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You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to…

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We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

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A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed…

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Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical…

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There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold…

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We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.

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