No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
CLARENCE DARROWI have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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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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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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You can only be free if I am free.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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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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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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