Quote #5

'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.'

More from Ramsey Clark

  1. 'He (Saddam) had this huge war going on, and you have to act firmly when you have an assassination attempt.' - BBC interview, 28 November 2…
  2. 'A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.'
  3. 'There can't be any more Fallujahs. Fallujah is the 21st century equivalent of Guernica. We just went in and destroyed that city, drove the…
  4. '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.'
  5. 'The world is the most dangerous place it's ever been now because of what our country has done, and is doing, and we have to take it back.'
  6. 'Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?'
  7. 'Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961. That we would torture people that way and on the instructions of the President o…
  8. 'The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.'

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