Excerpts--recommend reading whole thing. We're going to miss this guy.
"On April 9th, Ramsey Clark passed away at his home surrounded by his family.
Clark was Attorney General of the United States from 1967-1969 under Lyndon Johnson, during which time he led the way on voting rights for African-Americans, and school desegregation and drafted the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1968, better known as the Fair Housing Act, which addressed housing discrimination."
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"A man of strong ideals and few words, Clark would provide a simple
response. “Democracy is not a spectator sport,” he was fond of saying.
He believed that for a country to truly be democratic, the people must
participate. They must hold their government accountable for its
actions. And he spent his life trying to do that.
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