Quotes by William Kunstler - Page 1

A dog is a liberal... He wants to please everybody.
William Kunstler / Lawyer
Dog
Please
Want
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We have become the charnel house of the Western World.
William Kunstler / Lawyer
Western
Western World
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This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.
William Kunstler / Lawyer
New York
Annoyed
Annoying
Law
No Law
York
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So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.
William Kunstler / Lawyer
Dating
Important
Labor
Labor Movement
Movement
Date
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Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.
William Kunstler / Lawyer
Political
Tactics
Violent
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I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.
William Kunstler / Lawyer
Believe
Form
Resistance
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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 / Lawyer
Cat
Dog
Needs
Please
Loves
Liberal
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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 / Lawyer
Needs
Today
Type
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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 / Lawyer
Dream
Blanket
Died
Firsts
Parking
Parking Lot
People
Base
Shot
Blush
Young People
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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 / Lawyer
American History
Chicago
Demonstration
Memorable
Squares
Years
Particularly
Square
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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.
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Cambodia
Country
Numbers
Prove
Selected
Years
Earlier
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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 / Lawyer
Evil
Lazy
Struggle
Bodies
Ordained
Wherever
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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 / Lawyer
Certain
Favors
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!
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Animal
Eggs
Names
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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 / Lawyer
Government
Country
Fighting
Liberty
Everywhere
Government Fight People
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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 / Lawyer
Travel
Adventure
Asia
Blood
Glorious
Southeast Asia
Tragic
Life Moment People
National Life
Shedding
Southeast
Unofficial
Young People
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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 darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.
William Kunstler / Lawyer
Blanket
Monument
Path
Right Path
Judge
Chambers
Federal Judge
Powers
Shown
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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 up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.
William Kunstler / Lawyer
Arms
Cambodia
Civil War
Real Problems
Troops
Verge
Be Real
Civil
Closed
Colleges
Looked
Universities
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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 establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.
William Kunstler / Lawyer
America
Establishment
Officers
People
Talking
Tools
By The People
Equally
Judges
Police Officers
Prosecutors
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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 / Lawyer
Encouragement
Kings
Believe
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