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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Clarence Darrow

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
CLARENCE DARROW

Errors Evil Soul Truth
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
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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Crime Evil God Goodness Human Race Sin
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
You 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.
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End Human Important Method Place Society
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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Children Greatness Misfortune Opportunity Rich
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Close Important Life Man Wonderful
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Greatness Money Touch
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Form Life Live Oneself Philosophy
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

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