Gerry Spence

"The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power."

"There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academi…"

"Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose pe…"

"Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power."

"Words that do not create images should be discarded. Words that have no intrinsic emotional or visual content ought to be avoided. Words that are directed to the sterile intellectual head-place should…"

"How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?"

"The goal of a free nation is to reveal by example the enlightened possibilities of the human race, not to wield its power of destruction and death over the helpless, the poor, the starving and the war…"

"No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. ... Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. A…"