Ramsey Clark Quotes

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.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

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.

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

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

Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.

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.

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

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