The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
CLARENCE DARROWCan any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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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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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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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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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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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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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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