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

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.

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.

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!"

Holding fantasy to our chests only means our hands are not free to work.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

... I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.

I'm hoping that The Story of Reality will fill in more details for the Christian believer and will create a crisis of faith for the nonbeliever.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luck

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.

Jesus, deliver me from the spirit of witchcraft!