Prison Quotes by Chelsea Manning

8 Prison quotes by Chelsea Manning

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Chelsea Manning’s reflections on incarceration are summed up in eight brief passages, giving a quick, personal glimpse of her perspective on imprisonment.

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

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The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in…

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Health care is something that prisoners have a right to, you know? They don't get to pick and choose whether or not…

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I came out publicly as transgender and began hormone replacement therapy while in prison. When I was released, however, there was no…

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Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in run-down houses…

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I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions…

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I began to fear that I was forever going to be living in a hot desert cage, living as and being treated…

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Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us…

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I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

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Visibility is not equality.

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

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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…

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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.…

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By December 2009, I had come to terms with my gender identity just as I was deployed to Iraq.

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

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I do not think that Caitlyn Jenner's transition was easy. Coming out and transitioning as a public figure - even for someone like her…

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

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

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We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in.

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Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.

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The most important people for me, at least in the last couple of years since I came out, are my supersecret trans friends and…

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In the years preceding my imprisonment, I worked as a software programmer, designing and developing web interfaces, secure databases, and communication software; later, I…

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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…

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