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Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an American activist and former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.

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It is urgent to prevent new U. S. aggression. The time is now for the world to say 'no' to U. S. threats of air attack against Iran, and to the very notion of a nuclear first-use 'option' by America or any other nation.

Air, Iran, America, Nuclear, Threats

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

Careers, Hero, Invited, Rifle, Turns, Two

The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting.

Church, Divorced, Effect, President, Reality, Situation

I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics.

Found, Reasonable, Fanatics, Draft, Conscientious

If there's another 9
11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U. S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

Country, Decree, Equivalent, Hero, Massive, War

I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.

Answers, Citizens, Concealing, Consequences, Decision, Public

But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

Connected, Important, Keeping Secrets, Mainly, Mind, Secrets

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

Authority, Comfortable, Faith, People

I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents of his government or life in prison (in solitary confinement)-to awaken us to the danger of our loss of democracy to a total-surveilla nce state

Country, Government, Loss, See, Serious, Solitary

There are some things that should not be leaked without authorization.

Should, Things, Leaked, Authorization

I voted for Obama and I will probably vote for him again, as opposed to the Republicans. But I believe his administration in some key aspects is nothing other than the third term of the Bush administration.

Believe, Vote, Republican, Opposed, Aspects

I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.

Agree, Kept, Kept Secrets, Secret, Should, Things

You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.

Nothing, Tell, Telling The Truth, Thinking, Truth

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

Arrogant, Foolish, Right, Stupid, Young

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

War, Feelings, Nuclear, Life, Prevent

We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

Courage, Face, Faces, Needs, Truth, World

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.

Beauty, Good, Hero, Judgment, Pretty, Secret

It is time for the rest of the world to join. . . in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.

Demanding, India And Pakistan, Israel, Russia, World

My activities, for which I gratefully accept this Award, are today what they have been for over thirty-five years and will be for the rest of my life: to counter governmental secrecy about the nuclear arms race that threatens the survival of life on earth; and to help build a world movement that will prevent a first use since Nagasaki of nuclear explosions, prevent or end interventions that could lead to such an event, and bring about a world free of nuclear weapons.

Awards, Counter, Nagasaki, Race, Secrecy, Years

For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the government is sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority.

Country, Patriotic, Government, Patriotism, American

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