“All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."
- Clarence Darrow
Awareness
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."
- Clarence Darrow
Belief
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free."
- Clarence Darrow
Belief
"I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one."
- Clarence Darrow
Compassion
"Working people have a lot of bad habits, but the worst of those is work."
- Clarence Darrow
Happiness
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity