Edward Snowden Quotes About Justification

Quotes about: Justification

• Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right. But even if they did, you can't give away the rights of others because they're not useful to you. More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority. Arguing 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 free speech because you have nothing to say.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Rights, Giving

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 21, 2015.

• Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

  Edward Snowden

  President, Citizens, Movement

  Source: www.thenation.com

• The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting in the first place, without any specific judicial showing that there's a probable cause for that infringement of our rights.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Firsts, Causes

• When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Law, Looks

  Source: www.thenation.com

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