Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

Harold H. Greene's Popular Quotes

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had …

- Harold H. Greene

The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let the…

- Harold H. Greene

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court…

- Harold H. Greene

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi…

- Harold H. Greene

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

- Harold H. Greene

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchas…

- Harold H. Greene

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

- Harold H. Greene

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

- Harold H. Greene

Competition is good and has served us well.

- Harold H. Greene