The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
CLARENCE DARROWThe most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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