It's True That Most People

There Are Two Types Of Courage Involved With What I Did. When It Comes To Picking Up A Rifle, Millions Of People Are Capable Of Doing That, As We See In Iraq Or Vietnam. But When It Comes To Risking Their Careers, Or Risking Being Invited To Lunch By The Establishment, It Turns Out That's Remarkably Rare.

It Is Time For The Rest Of The World To Join ... In Demanding That All The Nuclear Weapons States -including Israel, India And Pakistan, But Above All The Us And Russia - Negotiate Concrete Steps On A Definite Time-table Toward The Global, Inspected Abolition Of Nuclear Weapons.

I See Edward Snowden As Someone Who Has Chosen, At Best, Exile From The Country He Loves-with A Serious Risk Of His Assassination By Agents Of His Government Or Life In Prison (in Solitary Confinement)-to Awaken Us To The Danger Of Our Loss Of Democracy To A Total-surveilla Nce State

Wikileaks Serves As A Back-up For Those Who Want To Tell The Truth About The Inner Workings Of Government When The Mainstream Media Is Not Willing Or Taking Too Long To Publish.

My Activities, For Which I Gratefully Accept This Award, Are Today What They Have Been For Over Thirty-five Years And Will Be For The Rest Of My Life: To Counter Governmental Secrecy About The Nuclear Arms Race That Threatens The Survival Of Life On Earth; And To Help Build A World Movement That Will Prevent A First Use Since Nagasaki Of Nuclear Explosions, Prevent Or End Interventions That Could Lead To Such An Event, And Bring About A World Free Of Nuclear Weapons.