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“To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.”

Quote by Julian Assange

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Julian Assange is an Australian journalist and activist, renowned for founding WikiLeaks, a platform that allows anonymous uploaders to share sensitive or confidential documents. He was born on July 3, 1971. more

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“Through the confessional system the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.”

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“My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.”

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“We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.”

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“When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.”

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“I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.”

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“Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.”

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“I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.”

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“I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.”

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