With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
Interpretation
Despite their imperfections, trade unions have significantly contributed to the betterment of society.
Clarence Darrow highlights the vital role that trade unions have played in advancing social justice and improving the lives of workers. He acknowledges that while they may have faults, their overall impact on humanity has been profound, making them one of the most important collective organizations in history. This quote prompts us to recognize contributions to workers' rights and social conditions brought about by collective action.
In practice
In a speech at a labor rally, one could emphasize how trade unions, despite their flaws, have significantly impacted workers' rights.
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
You are what what you eat eats.
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True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.
Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to feed it soup?
Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!
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