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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
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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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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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The law is a horrible business.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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