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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
Clarence Darrow
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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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