43+ Chelsea Manning Quotes On War, Freedom And Education

Chelsea Manning is an American activist, whistleblower, and former United States Army soldier. She was convicted in 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified, or unclassified but sensitive, military and diplomatic documents. Manning is currently serving a 35-year sentence in a military prison for her actions. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Chelsea Manning on war, freedom, education.

Top 10 Chelsea Manning Quotes

1. I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.
2. I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.
3. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.
4. Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society
5. There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics.
6. I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.
7. Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.
8. I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.
9. I believe that the trans movement is at a crossroads. We have achieved an unprecedented level of visibility in the last couple of years. However, that's not the same thing as equality.
10. I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility).

Chelsea Manning Short Quotes

• Visibility is not equality.
• It's not my goal to be a leader or spokesperson, or anything like that.
• As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me.
• Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.
• I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.
• I want people to see the truth.
• If an organization produces a document, it should be made public as soon as possible.
• I really don't care how I am perceived by people on the outside.

Chelsea Manning Famous Quotes And Sayings

I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare. — Chelsea Manning

I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others. — Chelsea Manning

As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan. — Chelsea Manning

There are just too many opportunities - and an increasing number of them - to hide systemic, institutional wrongdoing behind legal veils, legal theories, and arbitrary exemptions. I hope that we can start to chip away at this, but it sure looks like society is still sliding in the opposite direction. — Chelsea Manning

The press and free speech landscape has totally changed. There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream of - largely meaningless and speculative - analysis by sideline commentators and self-proclaimed "experts." — Chelsea Manning

I think the increased ubiquity of the internet and networked computing in general allowed me to have some tether no matter where I was geographically. I could log in to a computer from anywhere in the world and access the same information and the same people. It allowed me to transcend the physical differences. — Chelsea Manning

I didn't really have anyone in particular who inspired me or that I found fascinating as a kid. It wasn't until I was in my early twenties that I began to find people - and they were all historic figures - that I began to relate to and find some inspiration in. — Chelsea Manning

The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who did not intend to harm the interests of the United States or harm any service members. — Chelsea Manning

Investigative journalism and reporting has become much more dangerous. This is especially true for journalists and sources in National Security - but it has been getting pretty bad for beat reporters and small outlets doing local reporting, too. — Chelsea Manning

I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today. — Chelsea Manning

I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world - vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration. — Chelsea Manning

There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prisión militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repetición - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing. — Chelsea Manning

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 same person that I am today. — Chelsea Manning

Disturbingly, the First Amendment, along with the Fourth Amendment - protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring warrants - have been the major casualties of the shift in government policy in the last two decades. Unfortunately, I think that the biggest consequences of this tragedy won't be clear until it is far, far too late. — Chelsea Manning

The most important people for me, at least in the last couple of years since I came out, are my supersecret trans friends and confidantes. I think I need to come up with a code name for this circle. — Chelsea Manning

Donations to my legal defense fund really help, and I think keeping me motivated and spreading the message are also very important. — Chelsea Manning

While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone. — Chelsea Manning

It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions of one or two people and say, "That's wrong!" — Chelsea Manning

I think that the next two generations of Americans will be grappling with the very real specter of finding themselves living in a new and bizarre kind of digital totalitarian state - one that looks and feels democratic on the surface, but has a fierce undercurrent of fear and technologically enforced fascism any time you step out of line. I really hope this isn't the case, but it looks really bad right now, doesn't it? — Chelsea Manning

On a transparency front, I would say that I certainly dream of a world in which our local, state, and national and international governments and other organizations have a 21st century, digital-era transparency built into them by default. — Chelsea Manning

I think the embryonic digital world had the same affect on me as the openness of the old American frontier. — Chelsea Manning

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society. — Chelsea Manning

I can only ask of those who care about me and the issues in my case to support me and spread the word about what is going on. — Chelsea Manning

I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be. — Chelsea Manning

I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior. — Chelsea Manning

Life Lessons by Chelsea Manning

1. Chelsea Manning's work has shown us the importance of speaking up against injustice, even in the face of immense personal cost.
2. Her bravery in the face of adversity serves as an example of how one person can make a difference in the world.
3. Her story reminds us that we all have a moral responsibility to stand up for what is right, even when it is difficult to do so.