Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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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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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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