Quotes by Edward Snowden

Were losing our way as a society. If we dont stand up, if we dont say what we think those rights should be, and if we dont protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.

No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.

I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.