Ramsey Clark Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#House #Quality #Gaps
“A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Giving #Liberty
“The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Peace #War #World
“Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Change #Opportunity #Use
“People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Relationship #Elderly #People
“How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Government #Causes #World
“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, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Benefits #May #Violence
“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

#Kings #Moving #Might
“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

#Way #Criminals #Prison
“I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Volunteer #Duty
“Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Trials #Injustice #Flawed
“Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Democracy #Faults #Constitution
“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 waging that war. We intend to make this one different. What took place was the use of technological material to destroy a defenseless country. From 125,000 to 300,000 people were killed... We recognize our role in history is to bring the transgressors to justice.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Country #War #Justice
“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.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Honesty #Foundation #Truth Is
“Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Democracy #Secrecy
“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 acts that are serious offenses against the Constitution, its system of government, or the rule of law, or that are conventional crimes of such a serious nature that they would injure the Presidency if there was no removal.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Mean #Government #Law
“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 III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Kings #Law #People
“The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Law #Practice #Needs
“Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't had a real choice for a long, long time now. Wealth rules. Corporations rule. The US is a plutocracy - government by wealthy people. Certain people control multinational corporations. You couldn't get elected in the US without lots of money.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Real #Government #Long
“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.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Reality #Government #Ideas
“Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Law #Police #Protect
“Violence is the ultimate human degradation.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Violence #Degradation #Humans
“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.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Heart #Savages #Death Penalty
“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.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Sick #Ignorant #Rehabilitation
“Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.”
-- Ramsey Clark

#Giving #Islam #Dignity

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