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Clarence Darrow

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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Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
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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Hell Myself Suffering Understand
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
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
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Happiness Himself Man Wrong
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Heroes Idol One Liner
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Born Control Myself People Remember
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Doubt Explanation Mystery Origin Question Universe
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
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Enough Freedom Necessary Order
The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
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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Choice Content Eat Judgment Leadership Life Oneself
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Fear Loyalty Nation Togetherness
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
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
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Black Freckle Man Truth White
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
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
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.
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Case Lawyer Lose Myself Win
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
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
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Death Himself Man Purpose
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence

To think is to differ.

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