Edward Snowden: Quotes about people

Edward Snowden is American whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“And history also shows that seemingly ordinary people who are sufficiently resolute about justice can triumph over the most formidable adversaries.”

Edward Snowden

Penguin Books 2015 edition, page 46.
No Place to Hide (2014)

People , Justice , History

“When we've got these people who have practically limitless powers within a society, if they get a pass without so much as a slap on the wrist, what example does that set for the next group of officials that come into power? To push the lines a little bit further, a little bit further, a little bit further, and we'll realize that we're no longer citizens - we're subjects.”

Edward Snowden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWBQGVc2kq8&t=58m19s
2013

People

“I don’t work with people. I don’t recruit agents. What I do is I put systems to work for the United States. And I’ve done that at all levels from — from the bottom on the ground all the way to the top.”

Edward Snowden

nbcnews.com http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview/naive-gravely-mistaken-analysts-rebut-snowden-claims-n117101
2014

People , Way

“Saying that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. It’s a deeply anti social principle because rights are not just individual, they’re collective, and what may not have value to you today may have value to an entire population, an entire people, an entire way of life tomorrow. And if you don’t stand up for it, then who will?”

Edward Snowden

Jean-Michel Jarre, Edward Snowden - Exit, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNESMafb5ZI
2015

Life , People , Way , Freedom

“Politics: the art of convincing decent people to forget the lesser of two evils is also evil.”

Edward Snowden

Twitter June 11, 2016 https://twitter.com/snowden/status/741584993009438720?lang=en

Forgetting , People , Evil , Art