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• 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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Law, Class, Community

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.79, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I 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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Atheist, Men, Religion

  Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.

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• There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

  Clarence Darrow

  Wisdom, Action, Crime

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.16, University of Chicago Press

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• We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

  Clarence Darrow

  Reading, Law, Two

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• I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow

  Death, Mother, Atheist

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

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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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Past, Voice

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.147, University of Chicago Press

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• Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

  Clarence Darrow

  Justice, Goes On, Courtroom

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• Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fighting, Causes, Lost

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• Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

  Clarence Darrow

  Wrecks, Lawyer, Poet

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• Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

  Clarence Darrow

  Wisdom, Children, Teaching

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• With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.

  Clarence Darrow

  Honesty, Character, Men

  The Railroad Trainman, November 1909.

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• Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

  Clarence Darrow

  Peace, Attitude, Men

  Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (2005). “Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society”, p.89, Ohio University Press

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• The trouble with law is lawyers.

  Clarence Darrow

  Law, Feet, Trouble

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• An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

  Clarence Darrow

  Ideas, Cathedrals, Inherit The Wind

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• Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.

  Clarence Darrow

  Never Forget, Lost, Cases

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• I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Speech at Scopes trial, Dayton, Tenn., 15 July 1925

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• Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

  Clarence Darrow

  Motivational, Law, Clothes

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• The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.

  Clarence Darrow

  Country, Jobs, Healing

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• It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness upon those who are the victims of our foolish system.

  Clarence Darrow

  Past, Practice, Years

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.93, Lulu.com

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• Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

  Clarence Darrow

  Freedom, Law, Institutions

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, University of Chicago Press

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• The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

  Clarence Darrow

  Real, Trying, Trials

  "My trials by jury service" by Rick Gekoski, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2012.

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• The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

  Clarence Darrow

  Voice, Giving, Safe

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

  Clarence Darrow

  Righteous, Righteous Indignation, Indignation

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

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• Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Book, Men

  "Why I Am an Agnostic: Including Expressions of Faith from a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1929.

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• I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Order, Vivid Imagination

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.38, Lulu.com

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