Attorneys Quote by Ward Churchill

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

— Gloria Allred

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

— Pamela Yates

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.

— Trevor Phillips

I wasn't unsympathetic as a defense attorney, but my strong feelings for the victims were getting in my way. I identified too much with…

— Marcia Clark

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

— Anonymous

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him,…

— Jacques Verges

I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination.

— Sadiq Khan

I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.

— Tom Perez

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard…

— John Quincy Adams

As attorney general I see my role as defender both of press freedom and of the fair administration of justice.

— Dominic Grieve

My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.

— Cecile Richards