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

Lynne Stewart

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

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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 wonderful Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren's court rulings. Now it's all going the other way, the flow is against the defendant, against anything that could really help a client. But you still fight it, you do…

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How could I have been the valedictorian, the smartest, and never known Harlem existed? As a result, I began a lifelong learning experience, because…

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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,…

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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…

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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. So I went to the school and, being a smart cookie - as they called us in those days - I had a million questions. How did this place exist? How come I didn't…

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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…

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

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

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

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I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as…

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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…

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