No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
CLARENCE DARROWYou 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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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.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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