William Kunstler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.
-- William Kunstler

#Talking #America #Justice
This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.
-- William Kunstler

#New York #Law #Annoyed
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
-- William Kunstler

#Memorable #Squares #Years
Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.
-- William Kunstler

#Country #Numbers #Years
But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.
-- William Kunstler

#Country #Fighting #Government
A dog is a liberal... He wants to please everybody.
-- William Kunstler

#Dog #Want #Please
After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that it succeeded in many of its horrifying goals, given the deaths of Martin King, Malcolm X, and other sixties leaders. Since the FBI uses taxpayer dollars to fund its extreme and ridiculous investigations of anyone who expresses dissenting opinions, even resorting to crime - including theft, encouragement to murder, subornation of perjury, and manipulation of the judicial process - to achieve its ends, I have always advocated its disbanding.
-- William Kunstler

#Encouragement #Kings #Believe
A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs!
-- William Kunstler

#Animal #Names #Eggs
So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.
-- William Kunstler

#Dating #Important #Movement
At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.
-- William Kunstler

#Dream #People #Firsts
A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.
-- William Kunstler

#Dog #Cat #Want
On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia.
-- William Kunstler

#Adventure #Blood #People
Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.
-- William Kunstler

#Struggle #Evil #Lazy

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