The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
CLARENCE DARROWPhysical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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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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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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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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