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For journalists, for people at the front lines of trying to fight for truth, this is an existential moment for journalism and for democracy

— Maria Ressa Time 100 Speech (2019)

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What happens on social media doesn’t stay on social media. Online violence is real world violence.

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (2021)

We decided to use the power of group dynamics and social networks to do something positive: spread hope.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

Technology has proven that human beings have far more in common than we have differences.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

My only crime is to be a journalist, to speak truth to power.

Time 100 Speech (2019)

I think we’re living through a very unique moment where again it proves that information is power. It's a completely chaotic time where technology has helped make facts disputable, eroded truth, and crippled trust.

Time 100 Speech (2019)

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

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The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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