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

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

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

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.

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!"

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

Drowning, Drowning on the land, Drowning, It doesn't end.

The onslaught of scruples is a problem well attested in the spiritual life, especially among the young, where religious observances must be done perfectly to achieve a certain result.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

When it comes to fighting for your rights don't fold hands but turn them into fists.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

Beware of a man of one book.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.