“With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.” MenDoneHumanityLaborOrganizationTradeUnionsFaultsBettermentLabor UnionLabor DayTrade UnionsOrganized LaborUnion Solidarity Author:Clarence Darrow
“Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.” KnowsMenBelieveHumansWellsLittlesPersonsBookTodayHuman BeingsWrittenMoralityVariousIgnorantRationalPrimitiveDocumentsLittle Knowledge Author:Clarence Darrow
“If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.” IfsMenTryingMindMayBookGovernmentTodaySchoolNextTeachCrimeEvolutionTomorrowCatholicNewspapersSessionPublic SchoolBansProtestantsPrivate SchoolScopes Trial Author:Clarence Darrow
“The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.” IfsThinkingMenSpeakLandConstitutionDelusionStrongestSnares Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
“To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.” MenYearsDoeStillsLastsUniverseWonderMillionsDoubtMysteryYears AgoLast Year Book:Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays
“In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.” MenHumansEarthBornHuman LifeFlood Book:The Story of My Life Source: The Story of My Life
