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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

Clarence Darrow

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
CLARENCE DARROW

Black Freckle Man Truth White
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
CLARENCE DARROW

Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
CLARENCE DARROW

Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
CLARENCE DARROW

Animal Death Emotion Enjoyment Hate Help
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
CLARENCE DARROW

Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
CLARENCE DARROW

Exploration Opportunity Run Simplicity Time
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Beginning Believe Myself President
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
CLARENCE DARROW

Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
CLARENCE DARROW

Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROW

Book Hope Myself Royal Writing
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROW

Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
CLARENCE DARROW

Accomplishment Nation Path People Tax Willing Wrong
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
CLARENCE DARROW

Freedom Liberty Man Myself Protection
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
CLARENCE DARROW

Bad Habit People Work Worst
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROW

Believe God Mom Myself

It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

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