Chelsea Manning Quotes

#1. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition.

Chelsea Manning

#2. In the end, we will never, ever be able to guarantee that there will not be an Edward Snowden or another Chelsea Manning because this is a large enterprise composed of human beings with all their idiosyncrasies.

James R. Clapper

#3. At the time of our conversations, Chelsea Manning was 22 years of age - my own age when I made the choice to surrender to federal authorities ... I saw someone very familiar that day, and suddenly felt very old.

Adrian Lamo

#4. I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility).

Chelsea Manning

#5. As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.

Chelsea Manning

#6. I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.

Chelsea Manning

#7. But there were worse things than being left.

Cassandra Clare

#8. No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference ... between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.

William James

#9. I want people to see the truth.

Chelsea Manning

#10. I want people to see the truth ... regardless of who they are ...
because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a
public.

Chelsea Manning

#11. When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me so it was not a "make sure I have everything" glance. It was more like a parting glance to Philadelphia, my home, America- for I would not be coming back for ten months. (Ch 5- Twenty in Paris)

Andrea Bouchaud

#12. Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

John Wooden

#13. I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

Chelsea Manning

#14. Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

Chelsea Manning

#15. I have met my self and I am going to care for her fiercely.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#16. I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others.

Chelsea Manning

#17. Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

Danielle Trussoni