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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

Clarence Darrow

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

Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
CLARENCE DARROW

Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
CLARENCE DARROW

Freedom Liberty Man Myself Protection
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
CLARENCE DARROW

Clothes Fit Law People Service
The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
CLARENCE DARROW

Audience Compare Death Life Public Reality Small Theatre
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
CLARENCE DARROW

Born Control Myself People Remember
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
CLARENCE DARROW

Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
CLARENCE DARROW

Case Lawyer Lose Myself Win
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
CLARENCE DARROW

Happiness Himself Man Wrong
The trouble with law is lawyers.
CLARENCE DARROW

Law Lawyer Trouble
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
CLARENCE DARROW

Coward Discover Easy Ideas Immortal Life Origin
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
CLARENCE DARROW

Himself Lying Need
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
CLARENCE DARROW

God Immortal Man Personal Production
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
CLARENCE DARROW

Friendship Man Oneself Work
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance

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