Julian Assange
Activist
1971-07-03
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Quotes by Julian Assange
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Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
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Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear. Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those things in balance
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Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
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Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
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Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear. Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those things in balance
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Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
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We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
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Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
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As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.
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It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.
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Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.
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I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.
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Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
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We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.
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That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.
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When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.
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Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
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Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.
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So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years.
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Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.
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