Lynne Stewart Quotes

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• The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid.

  Lynne Stewart

  People, Way

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• The only thing we have is each other.

  Lynne Stewart

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• You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

  Lynne Stewart

  Government, Self, Calling

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• Being a lawyer, first of all, think creatively. Think, "How can we deal with this particular case in a way we haven't dealt with similar ones in the past?" Second, don't be afraid of the people who are willing to defend your client. I find too many lawyers say, "Keep that defense committee away from me!" If it weren't for my defense committee, I'd be sitting in federal prison in Texas today. And the press! You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

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  Past, Thinking, People

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• If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.

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  Mistake, Home, Jail

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• Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people.

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  Giving Up, People, Clients

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• I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution.

  Lynne Stewart

  People, Leader, Revolution

  "Counter-Intelligent". Interview with Susie Day, monthlyreview.org. November 1, 2002.

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• Today, it's not the same playing field as when I first became a lawyer in 1977, where the government had been restricted by our wonderful Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren's court rulings. Now it's all going the other way, the flow is against the defendant, against anything that could really help a client. But you still fight it, you do what you can do. It's all there is.

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  Fighting, Justice, Today

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• My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

  Lynne Stewart

  Criminals, Defense, Instinct

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• I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."

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  War, Fighting, People

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• Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.

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  Goal, World

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• I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles.

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  Jobs, Queens, Children

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• I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.

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  Acting, Citizens, Cop

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• I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation.

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  Reputation, Doorstep

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• I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents.

  Lynne Stewart

  Children, Cases

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• You know that question: What do you do when you think the client's guilty? The real question is: What you do when you think a client's innocent?

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  Real, Thinking, Guilty

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• I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

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  Hurt, Children, Add

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• You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

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  Government, Doe, God Knows

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• Put the strong, masculine figure in a school with tough kids and you have a certain control. It's very demeaning to the kids and very demeaning to the tough, black guy, but that's how they worked it.

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  Strong, School, Kids

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• I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents. All of the rest of us, we have smears and stains, but they're helpless. I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child. I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens. Other than that, I represented everybody who came by.

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  Hurt, Children, Acting

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• You make yourself available to the movement. At that point, for example, battered wives were not on the top of anybody's list. It was, "What did you do to provoke him? Why would he do that to you?" Stuff like that. I called the hotline, and I said I was available to help get orders of protection. I would help do whatever needed to be done, serve their papers. Many times, they'd go to court, get their papers, and then be afraid to serve them on the guy. So that was one source of income. But I took anything that came across my doorstep.

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  Wife, Guy, Done

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• How could I have been the valedictorian, the smartest, and never known Harlem existed? As a result, I began a lifelong learning experience, because I could not accept what the party line was with education - that these people want to live like this, these people don't have ambition, they don't want to work. You know, all the usual bullshit.

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  Party, Ambition, People

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• The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an informant today.

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  Decision, Important, Today

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• I spoke in front of a huge gathering in Seattle, and someone got up and said, "I'm just so afraid." I said, "The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid."

  Lynne Stewart

  People

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• There are lawyers who believe in client-centered representation and who are dedicated on the same level I feel I was dedicated.

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  Believe, Levels, Clients

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