Affirming Quote by Glenn Greenwald

“the true measure of a society’s freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good loyalists.”

— Glenn Greenwald

The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.

— Glenn Greenwald

Black people are expected to be passive citizens, good immigrants, mute and grateful.

— David Olusoga

“No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who…

— Glenn Greenwald

During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us,…

— Pat Buchanan

[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.

— William J. Duiker

“Despots, it turns out, are learning to practice what journalist Rebecca MacKinnon calls “networked authoritarianism”—the use of the Internet to consolidate power. Rather than…

— Anonymous

My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian…

— Mona Eltahawy

The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and…

— Noam Chomsky

Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by…

— Noam Chomsky

America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to…

— George W. Bush

Dissidents are not imprisoned as in the domains of the Kremlin, in the old days. They do not have their brains blown out by…

— Noam Chomsky