We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
CLARENCE DARROWThe man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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