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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

Clarence Darrow

You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
CLARENCE DARROW

End Human Important Method Place Society
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Oneself Origin Teaching Theory
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Black Freckle Man Truth White
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Beginning Believe Myself President
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Face Greatness Growth Lonely Myself Opinion Stand
For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Judgement Leaving Room Understand
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Friendship Man Oneself Work
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Crime Evil God Goodness Human Race Sin
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Bad Habit People Work Worst
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Coward Discover Easy Ideas Immortal Life Origin
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Business Funny Honesty Law Pretend
To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Doubt Explanation Mystery Origin Question Universe

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