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 Copy Share Image
I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation. — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
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… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
How could I have been the valedictorian, the smartest, and never known Harlem existed? As a result, I began a lifelong learning experience, because… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time. — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
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,… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
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… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
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… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
I think people are afraid. I remember when we'd have discussions in the '60s among people who were active. We'd say, "Well, people are… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid. — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
