A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
"William Ramsey Clark" is an American lawyer, activist and former public official. He worked for the United States Department of Justice/U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969, under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He supervised the drafting and played an important role in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1968. Since leaving public office Clark has led many progressive activism campaigns, including opposition to the War on Terror, and he has offered legal defense to controversial figures such as Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)/Charles Taylor, Slobodan Miloševi?, Saddam Hussein, and Lyndon LaRouche.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous public servants! More Ramsey Clark on Wikipedia.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.
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.
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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.
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.
Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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