[Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

Go where there is silence and say something.

People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

[Technology] has taught us how to become gods before we have learned to be men.

We testify of what we have experienced and witnessed. May our testimony inspired others to share their story.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.

The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.

If I plug my estimates into the Magic Formula, and it comes out cheap, that's good.

Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.