Inspirational Quotes by Edward Snowden

27 Inspirational quotes by Edward Snowden

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Edward Snowden's twenty‑seven statements blend personal conviction with broader reflections on freedom. They serve as a reminder that standing up for truth can be both daring and necessary.

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I'm not a spy, which is the real question

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I do not expect to see home again.

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Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.

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I'm still working for the government.

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Privacy is a function of liberty.

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There's no saving me.

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I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.

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Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

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What is right is not always the same as what is legal

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I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.

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I have no relationship with the Russian government at all.

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So many of the things we're told by the government simply aren't true.

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The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

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We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back

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You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when…

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And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to…

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Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on,

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The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.

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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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The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do…

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I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

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The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and…

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The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed

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If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

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There is a technical solution to every political problem,

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If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public

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I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

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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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Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I…

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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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As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under…

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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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