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Chelsea Manning Quotes

We need to stop hoping that our systems will right themselves. We need to actually take the reins of government and fix our institutions. We need to save lives by making change at every level.

Chelsea Manning

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: criminal
Nationality: american
Birth: December 17, 1987

Topics

Change Government Stop Will Need

Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.

Jennifer Granholm

Water Employees You Run Firefighters

Oddly, I think that a lot of the haters of EDM and DJs are actually within the world of electronic music.

Max Joseph

Music World Think Haters Within DJs

Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

Michael Beck

Life Art Day Yourself My Life Down

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

Fear Power Loss Corrupt Corrupts

Part of China's strategic planning is to make their universities among the top level of the world, and I think they understand you can't do that without the adoption of some of the principles of the great universities in the West; one of those is the ability to have free expression and discussion in the classroom.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Great World Free Planning Think You

Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Change Pain People Accept Always

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Ronald Reagan

Man Government Democracy Worth Dying

The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group while also reaching a wide audience.

Roxane Gay

Interesting Strategy Group Way Open

The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.

Mike McCue

Time Long Long Time Web Been Known

And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Work Time Best Chance Colleagues

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

Douglas Kirkland

Love Myself Love Is Photography Very

When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

Dee Dee Myers

Life Change Women Change The World