Lynne Stewart Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation. — Lynne Stewart

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. — Lynne Stewart

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

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. — Lynne Stewart

The only thing we have is each other. — Lynne Stewart

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

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

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. — Lynne Stewart

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." — Lynne Stewart

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

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

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. — Lynne Stewart

There's a lot of active radical thought today but not much action. — Lynne Stewart

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. — Lynne Stewart

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work. — Lynne Stewart

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. — Lynne Stewart