"It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that weâ€™ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that weâ€™ve had to learn what our government is doing."

Source : "'A Massive Surveillance State': Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 07, 2013.

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“It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.”
“'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.”

Source : Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press
“Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.”
“One decision can change your life forever.”
“. . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last. In my experience, they want no real representations of homosexuality, they want no complexity, they are terrified of ambiguity and unanswered questions - they don't know what they want, except that they want to make lots of money. The only freedom I've ever had as an artist has been in the theatre . . ..”
“I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.”
“True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.”

Source : Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. VII
“I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.”

Source : "Heroes of Mexico" by Morris Rosenblum, (p. 112), 1969.

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