I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.
Lynne Stewart
I couldn't add my talent, ...
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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 I could not accept what the party line was with education - that these people want to live like this, these people don't have ambition, they don't want to work. You know, all the usual bullshit.
Lynne Stewart
I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents. All of the rest of us, we have smears and stains, but they're helpless. I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child. I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens. Other than that, I represented everybody who came by.
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 private citizens.
Lynne Stewart
There's a lot of active radical thought today but not much action.
Lynne Stewart
We had people who did housing, people who did anti-war, people who did schools. Everyone operated in their own niche, but not separately. We all were together on certain issues when it was important. Everybody was active in the '60s. I feel that there's a lot of active radical thought today but not much action.
Lynne Stewart
