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 DARROWI knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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