Edward Snowden Quotes About Sacrifice

Quotes about: Sacrifice

• Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Sacrifice, Rights

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

• Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.

  Edward Snowden

  Sacrifice, Surveillance State, Talking

  "Ex-CIA Worker Edward Snowden Says He Leaked Surveillance Data" by Anugrah Kumar, www.christianpost.com. June 10, 2013.

• My case clearly demonstrates the need for comprehensive whistleblower protection act reform. If we had had a real process in place, and reports of wrongdoing could be taken to real, independent arbiters rather than captured officials, I might not have had to sacrifice so much to do what at this point even the President seems to agree needed to be done.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Taken, Independent

• You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much.

  Edward Snowden

  Sacrifice, Agency, Government

• Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even though what they have done is heroic - is to distinguish them from the civic duty they performed, and excuses the rest of us from the same civic duty to speak out when we see something wrong, when we witness our government engaging in serious crimes, abusing power, engaging in massive historic violations of the Constitution of the United States. We have to speak out or we are party to that bad action.

  Edward Snowden

  Hero, Party, Sacrifice

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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