The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROWEducation was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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You can only be free if I am free.
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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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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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