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Ramsey Clark
American
Public Servant
About the author
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,
American
Public Servant
#Martin
Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
Ramsey Clark,
American
Public Servant
#Public
#Will
#Law
#Police
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsey Clark,
American
Public Servant
#Life
#Love
#Opportunity
#Change
#Force
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,
American
Public Servant
#Being
#Society
#Concern
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark,
American
Public Servant
#Public
#Quality
#Measure
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark,
American
Public Servant
#Constitution
#Faults
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.
Ramsey Clark,
American
Public Servant
#People
#Law
#Country
#Justice
I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
Ramsey Clark,
American
Public Servant
#Duty
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
Ramsey Clark,
American
Public Servant
#Right
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,
American
Public Servant
#Security
#First
#Lawyers
#Concern
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
Ramsey Clark,
American
Public Servant
#Policy
#World
#Crime
#War
#Foreign policy
#World war