Harold H. Greene

Harold Herman Greene was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter in 1978.

Date of birth:
6th February, 1923
Date of death:
29th January, 2000
"There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn’t get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning."
― Harold H. Greene
Topic(s): Morning
"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
Topic(s): Legal
"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. Get us a memo on what we’re likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.’"
― Harold H. Greene
Topic(s): Morning

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