Ramsey Clark quotes

Ramsey Clark was an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. Attorney General. Known for his advocacy of civil rights and opposition to the death penalty, he became an influential figure in social justice movements. He dedicated much of his career to international human rights and legal activism. Here are 15 of his quotes:

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. (Ramsey Clark)
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. View quote
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. View quote
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. View quote
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There can't be any more Fallujahs. Fallujah is the 21st century equivalent of Guernica. We just went in and destroyed that city, drove the people out, killed them, thousands. We don't know how many. View quote
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The world is the most dangerous place it's ever been now because of what our country has done, and is doing, and we have to take it back. View quote
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Our overriding purpose, from the beginning right through to the present day, has been world domination - that is, to build and maintain the capacity to coerce everybody else on the planet: nonviolently, if possible; and violently, if necessary. But the purpose of our foreign policy of domination is not just to make the rest of the world jump through hoops; the purpose is to facilitate our exploitation of resources. And insofar as any people or states get in the way of our domination, they must be eliminated - or, at the very least, shown the error of their ways. View quote
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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. View quote
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Who will protect the public when the police violate the law? View quote
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He (Saddam) had this huge war going on, and you have to act firmly when you have an assassination attempt. View quote
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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. (Ramsey Clark)
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. View quote
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. View quote
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. View quote
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify. View quote
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