Julian Assange Quotes
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.
Assange, Julian. Julian Assange: The Unauthorized Autobiography. Canongate Books, 2011.
The E. W. Scripps Newspapers hired Magee and adopted the motto for their entire newspaper chain. There are some who claim that it was Dante who originated the motto. Actually, he may have inspired it. In Purgatory he wrote, “Thou didst as one who passing through the night bears a light behind, that profits not himself but makes those who follow wise.” This was certainly not the motto but might have inspired Magee who was familiar with the Dante line.
Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. These leaks included the Baghdad airstrike Collateral Murder video (April 2010), the Afghanistan war logs (July 2010), the Iraq war logs (October 2010), and Cablegate (November 2010). After the 2010 leaks, the United States government launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks.
