Johnnie Cochran Quotes

#1. Johnnie Cochran hasn't spent 20 years serving people in low-income, minority neighborhoods, ridding them of gangs and narcotics. I have. He hasn't been shot at and punched. I have. I've paid my dues to be able to say I'm not a racist.

Mark Fuhrman

#2. I have known Johnnie Cochran for many years as an attorney and personal friend, but he has already expressed publicly that he is not on this case.

Mark Geragos

#3. Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases.

Johnnie Cochran

#4. You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.

Peter Blair Henry

#5. When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

Fulton J. Sheen

#6. No one whines like a vampire forced to deal with some minor unpleasantness.

Tori Centanni

#7. I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.

Lydia Lunch

#8. We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

Johnnie Cochran

#9. Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Johnnie Cochran

#10. She climbed back into bed, slid down between her boys, and slept at last.

Nancy Horan

#11. That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

Boris Becker

#12. If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

Johnnie Cochran

#13. I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.

Johnnie Cochran

#14. I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.

Paulo Coelho

#15. On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

Johnnie Cochran

#16. If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.

Johnnie Cochran

#17. There would be no chance to get to know death at all ... if it happened only once.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#18. It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

Peter Fonda

#19. An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

Johnnie Cochran

#20. I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.

Johnnie Cochran

#21. I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

Johnnie Cochran

#22. I try and have family time, all the time, so you know, I get to see them a lot. And I'm always with my friends, my boyfriend, it helps me keep grounded and kind of sane.

Nicole Polizzi

#23. I just told you I didn't - and I don't like to be doubted," he scolds. "I didn't go anywhere last weekend. I sat and made the glider you gave me. Took me forever," he adds quietly.

E.L. James

#24. In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.

Johnnie Cochran

#25. If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts?

Johnnie Cochran

#26. If it does not fit, you must acquit.

Johnnie Cochran

#27. I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

Johnnie Cochran

#28. For the first time Saya understood how people can grow accustomed to war. Intensified by the stark contrast between life and death, fleeting moments of joy such as these could make one almost mad with happiness.

Noriko Ogiwara

#29. That's what makes a fighter. I got dropped and I got back up, and I found a way to get the win.

Andre Ward

#30. Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

Johnnie Cochran

#31. Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

Johnnie Cochran

#32. The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

Johnnie Cochran

#33. I want to describe myself, not be described by others.

Johnnie Cochran