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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote 'In Contempt' was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were trying to bring both law and justice into contempt. The situation afforded us an opportunity to show to the public whether we were trying to bring law into contempt or whether others were doing so.

I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.