William Kunstler Quotes

• 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

  America, Talking, People

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

  William Kunstler

  New York, Law, Annoyed

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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 ones do their ordained tasks to us.

  William Kunstler

  Struggle, Evil, Lazy

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• 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

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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.

  William Kunstler

  Dog, Cat, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

  William Kunstler

  Country, Fighting, Government

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• Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

  William Kunstler

  Political, Tactics, Violent

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• There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.

  William Kunstler

  Today, Needs, Type

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• I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

  William Kunstler

  Believe, Resistance, Form

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• I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.

  William Kunstler

  Favors, Certain, Used

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• 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

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• A dog is a liberal... He wants to please everybody.

  William Kunstler

  Dog, Want, Please

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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 died with them.

  William Kunstler

  Dream, People, Firsts

  William Moses Kunstler (2004). “The Emerging Police State: Resisting Illegitimate Authority”, Ocean Press (AU)

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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 Haymarket Square in Chicago.

  William Kunstler

  Memorable, Squares, Years

  "The emerging police state: resisting illegitimate authority". Book by William Moses Kunstler, p. 96, 2004.

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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 stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia.

  William Kunstler

  Travel, Adventure, Blood

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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 no sanctuaries in that country.

  William Kunstler

  Country, Years, Numbers

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

  William Kunstler

  Dating, Important, Movement

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