"Even a competent lawyer may not be able……" — Anthony Lewis
"Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages."
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20 Quotes by Anthony Lewis
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We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for…
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Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the…
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I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning…
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Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.
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With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
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I am an optimist about America.
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Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to…
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The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No…
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The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing…
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Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.
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Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity,…
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We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in…
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know…
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within…
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