long quote, criminal justice
CRIME AND CRIMINALS
Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
by Clarence Darrow
Preface
This address is a stenographic report of a talk made to the prisoners in the Chicago jail. Some of my good friends have insisted that while my theories are true, I should not have given them to the inmates of a jail.
Realizing the force of the suggestion that the truth should not be spoken to all people, I have caused these remarks to be printed on rather good paper and in a somewhat expensive form. In this way the truth does not become cheap and vulgar, and is only placed before those whose intelligence and affluence will prevent their being influenced by it.
the version i'm reading was kindly pirated for me by my professor so i can't link it, but if you'd like to read this it appears the internet archive also has a copy https://archive.org/details/2917177.0001.001.umich.edu/page/2/mode/2up
uh, warning for just sorta blithely ignoring the entire existence of native peoples when discussing the settlement of australia and america