Ramsey Clark Quotes

• Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

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• A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.

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  Tags in Rights

• A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.

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  Tags in People, Worried

• I didn’t volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

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  Tags in Duty, Testing

• A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.

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  Tags in Right

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

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  Tags in Constitution, Faults

• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

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  Tags in Crime

• Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can’t possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that’s not been adequately attended to.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adequate

• If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

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  Tags in Rosa

• The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Quality, Public

• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

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  Topics in Society

  Tags in Members

• Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change.

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  Topics in Opportunity, Uncategorized

  Tags in Turbulent

• Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

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  Tags in Protect, Public

Ramsey Clark (13)

Birth:	18th December, 1927
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Lawyer

About

William Ramsey Clark is an American lawyer, activist and former public official. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969, under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He supervised the drafting and played an important role in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1968. Since leaving public office Clark has led many progressive activism campaigns, including opposition to the War on Terror, and he has offered legal defense to controversial figures such as Charles Taylor, Slobodan Milošević, Saddam Hussein, and Lyndon LaRouche.

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• 1945 - Robert Benchley
• 1999 - Quentin Crisp
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• 1959 - Max Baer
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