I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Donations to my legal defense fund really help, and I think keeping me motivated and spreading the message are also very important. — 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 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
The most important people for me, at least in the last couple of years since I came out, are my supersecret trans… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Disturbingly, the First Amendment, along with the Fourth Amendment - protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring warrants - have been… — 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 am really passionate about transparency and trans rights issues, so I embrace these opportunities to speak. I try to stay in… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I think that the next two generations of Americans will be grappling with the very real specter of finding themselves living in… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
By December 2009, I had come to terms with my gender identity just as I was deployed to Iraq. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
