Ramsey Clark Quotes

United States, Lawyer
December 18, 1927 – April, 9, 2021.

William Ramsey Clark was an American lawyer, activist and former federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, notably serving as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969; previously he was Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967 and Assistant Attorney General from 1961 to 1965.

Also known as Politician, Peace Activist

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

Ramsey Clark
- Life
- Love
- Opportunity
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

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- Constitution
- Most
- Faults

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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- Quality
- Measure
- Citizen
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Ramsey Clark
- World
- War
- Greatest
Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

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- Law
- Police
- Protect
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.

Ramsey Clark
- You
- King
- Bus
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.

Ramsey Clark
- You
- Security
- Lawyers
I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

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- Me
- Duty
- Volunteer

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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- People
- Great
- Country
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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- Society
- Way
- Better
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

Ramsey Clark
- You
- Right
- Someone
'Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961. That we would torture people that way and on the instructions of the President of the United States and his highest legal advisers, torture is okay, they said. Go for it, fellas. If we can't renounce that and remove it from office, then the Constitution doesn't work anymore.'

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- People
- Work
- Innocent