Clarence Darrow is a 1974 videotaped television production of a one-person play directed by John Rich, written by David W. Rintels and produced by Don Gregory and Mike Merrick. Henry Fonda portrayed the celebrated defense lawyer Clarence Darrow.
Clarence Darrow is a 1974 videotaped television production of a one-person play directed by John Rich, written by David W. Rintels and produced by Don Gregory and Mike Merrick. Henry Fonda portrayed the celebrated defense lawyer Clarence Darrow.
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“In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.”
“All men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically.”
“Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. I'm not worried about my soul.”
“Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctrine of non-resistance is as old as human thought — even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.”
“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.”
“I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.”
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Clarence Darrow is a 1974 videotaped television production of a one-person play directed by John Rich, written by David W. Rintels and produced by Don Gregory and Mike Merrick. Henry Fonda portrayed the celebrated defense lawyer Clarence Darrow.