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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.

Clarence Darrow

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Forever Object Rebel World Wrong
For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Judgement Leaving Room Understand
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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Home Knowledge Mad Mindset Possession Thinking
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Enough Freedom Necessary Order
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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End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Civilization Scope Trial
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
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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Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
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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Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Freedom Liberty Man Myself Protection
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Face Greatness Growth Lonely Myself Opinion Stand
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.
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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Offense Oppression Severe Visit
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject

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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