Ramsey Clark Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

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#4. This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

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#5. I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

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#6. It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

George C. Marshall

#7. People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

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#8. When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.

Norman Mailer

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

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#10. Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

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#11. Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

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#12. The U.S. has in its stockpiles more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, more aircraft, rockets and delivery systems in number and sophistication than the rest of the world combined. Included are twenty commissioned Trident II nuclear submarines any one of which could destroy Europe.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you

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#16. Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

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#17. 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 state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.

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#18. 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 plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

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

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#20. And Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece.

Strabo

#21. What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#22. 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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#23. A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that she's tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, but that is how the world has presented itself to me throughout my life.

Pat Conroy

#24. Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.

Albert Goodwill Spalding

#25. I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

Simon Gray

#26. Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

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#27. Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

Gene Wolfe

#28. I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.

Eula Biss

#29. The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.

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#30. They could call Jesus a terrorist too. I mean, he was pretty tough on money lenders a time or two.

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#31. Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

Harold Washington

#32. 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 and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

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#33. The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

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#34. Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

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#35. It's the mind itself which shapes the body.

Joseph Pilates

#36. Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

J.K. Rowling

#37. Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.

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#38. 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 has suffered. It is the poor, the sick, the ignorant, the powerless, and the hated who are executed.

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