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13 quotes by William Kunstler

William Moses Kunstler (July 7, 1919 – September 4, 1995) was an American self-described "radical lawyer" and civil rights activist, known for his politically unpopular clients. Kunstler was a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the co-founder of the Law Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the "leading gathering place for radical lawyers in the country". Kunstler's defense of the "Chicago Seven" from 1969–1970 led...
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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... →

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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... →

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This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

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A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.

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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... →

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But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of... →

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Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were... →

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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... →

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So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

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We have become the charnel house of the Western World.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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