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Ramsey Clark Quotes
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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| Birth: | 18th December, 1927 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Activist, Lawyer |
About
William Ramsey Clark is an American lawyer, activist and former public official. He worked for the 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, Slobodan Milošević, Saddam Hussein, and Lyndon LaRouche.
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