Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on… — 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
