Ramsey Clark Quotes

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• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
• I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
• A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
• A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of…
• Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime,…
• Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration…
• People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.
• Violence is the ultimate human degradation.
• Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
• We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a…
• Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.
• The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.
• Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George…
• Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened…
• Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.
• Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works…
• It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and…
• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
• Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.
• 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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