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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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