Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrowwas an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks. Some of his other notable cases included defending Ossian Sweet, and John T. Scopes in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial, in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan. Called a "sophisticated country lawyer", he remains notable for his wit, which...
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth18 April 1857
CityKinsman, OH
The origin of the human race is not as blind a subject as it once was. Let alone God creating Adam out of hand, from the dust of the earth, does anyone believe that Eve was made from Adam's rib...?
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live.
It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater possibilities and grander heights.
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
The 'single tax' is so simple, so fundamental, and so easy to carry into effect that I have no doubt that it will be about the last reform the world will ever get. People in this world are not often logical.
My dear woman, ... ever since the Phoenicians invented money there has been only one answer to that question.
Whenever I hear of birth control, I always remember that I was the fifth
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the world.