I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.
Chelsea ManningIt can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions of one or two people and say, "That's wrong!"
Chelsea ManningI think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.
Chelsea ManningThere are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prisiรณn militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repeticiรณn - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing.
Chelsea ManningDisturbingly, the First Amendment, along with the Fourth Amendment - protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring warrants - have been the major casualties of the shift in government policy in the last two decades. Unfortunately, I think that the biggest consequences of this tragedy won't be clear until it is far, far too late.
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