Cry Quote by Lynne Stewart

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

— Lynne Stewart

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

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

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

— 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,…

— 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…

— Lynne Stewart

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

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

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

— Lynne Stewart

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

— 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

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