Audre Lorde who said: ‘If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.’
“it is outrageous that the law appears deliberately incomprehensible to those who need to understand it most.”
― The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
― The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
“No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.”
― The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
― The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
“despite the grand principles at its heart, at nearly every stage of our prized system of criminal justice we see things going badly, and preventably, wrong.”
― The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
― The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
“There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.”
― Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
― Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
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