Maria Ressa Quotes
The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing.
Ressa, Maria. How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future. Harper, 2022.
In the early 21st century America’s world image, credibility, and popularity had plummeted to new lows. The George W. Bush administration spent millions of dollars on public diplomacy – public relations, propaganda, and image building using the techniques of Madison Avenue to change the world perception of America. Veteran diplomats like Kissinger advised that the Bush was going about it backwards. If America did the right things, world opinion would appreciate it and America’s credibility will follow as it has throughout most of the 20th century. Most foreign politicians and journalists tended to agree. It had been Bush’s policies and practices that had been disliked. They were understood, it was argued, and did not need to be better explained—just changed.
He admitted to over 20 mob connected murders. Unfortunately, like so many gang murders today, many murders feel no remorse as they live in a warped subculture where even murder under certain circumstances is virtuous.
Maria Angelita Ressa is a Filipino-American journalist and author, the co-founder and CEO of Rappler. She previously spent nearly two decades working as a lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for CNN. In 2020, she was convicted of cyberlibel under the controversial Philippine Anti-Cybercrime law, a move condemned by human rights groups and journalists as an attack on press freedom.
