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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.

Clarence Darrow

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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
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Humanizing
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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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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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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