Quotes from Isaac Wright Jr.

I'm going to ensure justice, where justice is shaky.

It didn't matter whether I had a penny or whether I had a billion dollars. There was nothing that was going to keep me out of a courtroom, and there was nothing that was going to keep me from helping others.

The first time I picked up a law book, it was like I had done it all my life. There was just something that happened to me when I did that, and I realized there was a hidden gift there I didn't know I had.

In major industrial countries, it is a requirement that the students in grade school learn English. The financial instrument of choice internationally is the American dollar. And so that represents the kind of power and influence we have all across the world. But for some reason, we cannot stop the culture of brutality that we're facing.

The only changes that we can make as people is changes in leadership. But as a people, it's very, very difficult once those people get into those positions for us to make any changes.

If I had a billion dollars, that's not going to keep me out of the courtroom.

From the day I got out, it was an evolutionary process. I was sick for, like, two years - that's the best way I can describe what was happening with me. But as time went by and I finished law school, it became clear to me that I needed a platform.

The biggest thing is separation from family. It's a huge burden to carry and destructive in a lot of ways.

When slavery was over, those atrocities that were done by slave owners was passed over to law enforcement, and law enforcement took up that task.

I know the air of hopelessness and what people in prison go through.

In my mind, there was never a thought that I wasn't going to find a way to get myself out of prison.

Once I understood what was going to happen - that I was going to prison for life - my end goal was making sure they wouldn't be able to keep me there.

I knew early on that I was going to prison for the rest of my life and that there was nothing that no one was going to be able to do to help me.

I was sentenced in 1991 to life in prison.

When I went through what I was going through in prison, one of the things that was very distracting was the issue that it's a very dangerous environment. Moving through that process, I had to develop such an intense focus that I had to change my character and be someone else.

I take a lot of pro bono cases, and I always have to balance my pro bono cases with my paying clients because this is a law firm - this is a business.

I got sentenced in 1991. It's 2020, and my family and I have not discussed what happened to me.

I became so disenfranchised, I dropped out of school and I moved to New York.

Sometimes when a thing hits you, it hits you in levels, and the reality of what's happening has been a progression for me.

Once I made the decision to represent myself, I knew that I was very, very far behind in learning, understanding and in skills. I just went on a quest and spent 16 to 18 hours every day teaching myself the law.

Even on the witness stand at trial, there were people up there and I had no clue who they were. I had never seen them a day in my life and they were pointing the finger at me saying that I was their boss.

It's obviously an incredible feeling to come from where I started to where I am right now. Having this show has been a very enlightening and therapeutic process. It allows me to watch what I went through in the third person.

You know, one of the disappointments about - for me, personally about being released - is that I left thousands of people behind. Now that 'For Life' is here, and here for everyone, it gives me the ability to touch millions at the same time.

I got over 20 people out of prison, some with life sentences and others based on getting their sentences reduced.