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- Nov 07, 2020
Courthouse Quotes
The building where access and justice don't always match.
These courthouse quotes range from a civil-rights-era warning to Black voters staying away on registration day, to an FBI arrest made right inside the building, reminders that the courthouse has always been more than a place to file paperwork, closely tied to Justice itself.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think that the image of the press in the 1940s - a bunch of guys in hats screaming on the courthouse steps - was all baloney. I used to say, 'I know reporters. We're not like that.' But we are.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.'
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'
- Cub
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my very early days as a journalist, as a cub reporter on a local newspaper, I used to cover the district courthouse in Limerick city - all human life passed through that establishment, and my time there remains a source of inspiration.
- Grenade
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.'
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
- Friday Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went downtown to the courthouse pretty late at night, and arraignment court was on. You have these prosecutors and public defenders and judges and all of these people who are there on a Friday night at half past 12, and how can you expect people to bring their judgment and their best selves to their work at that kind of time?
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The construction of a courthouse is a long-term investment in a building where important public business is done. But that does not justify extravagant expenditures. Courthouses should be dignified, durable, and functional. They should not be grandiose, monumental, and luxurious.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a true story. The day after Reagan won, I was walking into the courthouse when someone said that they'd bet Reagan would appoint me U.S. attorney.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020