Quote Of The Day

“If you save one life, it as if you had saved the entire world. The wisdom of that saying is, of course, its recognition of the generative potential inherent in each man and woman. When you save a single life, you protect for all humanity all that person will accomplish and all that his or her children may do for the world ahead. Conversely, when you snuff out a life, you also deny all humanity, for ll times, all the good and constructive thing that he- and all his descendants- might have accomplished.” -Johnnie Cochran

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What Johnnie Cochran Said About Police Officers In His Autobiography

Johnnie Cochran“The policeman on the street is the most powerful person in the criminal justice system. If he is in the grip of some grim private impulse or carries with him some bigoted private agenda, he can- all on his own- take your life, beat you and choose to lie about your guilt or innocence. If the rest of the system the elects to accept his word without question, you are utterly at his mercy.” -From, “Journey to Justice” By: Johnnie Cochran

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Quote Of The Day

“You can’t quit or stop or back up or blink. You have to move forward. You have to press the limits. You have to trust your gut. You have to pursue the possibility of success through failure after failure, if necessary. You’ve just got to believe. And you got to accept that being right will not make you popular; it can in fact make you very unpopular. I accept that. What I will not accept, on any level, is injustice. I like people who will stand up even when it’s not popular. You have to do that to change things.” -Johnnie Cochran

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