Attorney Quote by Eric Holder

On a personal level, I've seen a lot in my time as attorney general, but few things have affected me as greatly as my…

— Eric Holder

I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that…

— Eric Holder

The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.

— Eric Holder

Although the attorney general is a part of the president's team, you're really separate and apart. You have a special responsibility as the nation's…

— Eric Holder

I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't…

— Eric Holder

I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after…

— Eric Holder

If I were attorney general in Kansas in 1953, I would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities.

— Eric Holder

Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they…

— Eric Holder

There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general…

— Eric Holder

Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.

— Eric Holder

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

— Agnes Varda

“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins…

— Michelle Alexander