I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.

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

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

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.

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

Even if I didn't have the support that I have, I would still be fighting the same fights, and I would still be the same person that I am today.

There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics.

I want people to see the truth.

Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.

I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.

It 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!"

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

It’s easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well.

The message we give our bodies - one of irritation or acceptance - is the message to which our bodies will answer.

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?

The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change.

Ever since [Ronald] Reagan, they've been able to capture the message and an understanding - or persuade people of a certain understanding of what the nation is about and what's good for it.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.