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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

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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
Jury
Trials
Rich
Poor
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I am pleading for the future I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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