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

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Justice
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Nothing
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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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