It was the least sacred thing in existence and these boys were trained to this cruelty.”Īttorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom The tales of death were in their homes, their playgrounds, their schools they were in the newspapers that they read it was a part of the common frenzy - what was a life? It was nothing. I need not tell you how many upright, honorable young boys have come into this court charged with murder, some saved and some sent to their death, boys who fought in this war and learned to place a cheap value on human life. We read about it and we rejoiced in it - if it was the other fellows who were killed. We read of killing one hundred thousand men in a day.
Do you suppose this world has ever been the same since? How long, your Honor, will it take for the world to get back the humane emotions that were slowly growing before the war? How long will it take the calloused hearts of men before the scars of hatred and cruelty shall be removed? It was taught in every school, aye in the Sunday schools. Christian against Christian, barbarian uniting with Christians to kill Christians anything to kill.
For four long years the civilized world was engaged in killing men.
What did they do? Right or wrong, justifiable or unjustifiable - which I need not discuss today - it changed the world. I approved of it I joined in the general cry of madness and despair. “Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the war.
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