Quotes by Ramsey Clark

• 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.
• Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
• Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
• 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.
• The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
• 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.
• I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
• A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
• 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.
• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.