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1 " The true measure of a society´s freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats its good loyalists. We shouldn´t have to be faithful loyalists of the powerful to be free from state surveillance. "
― Glenn Greenwald , No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
2 " Like any dissidents they were neurotic archivists. Agree, disagree, show no interest in or obsess over their narrative of history, you couldn't say their didn't shore it up with footnotes and research. "
― China Miéville , The City & the City
3 " Almost as a rule, political dissidents were writers. "
― , Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
4 " The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. "
