"We have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States, and you know it, and that is all."
— Creationism

January 1, 1970

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Clarence Darrow, quoted in William Hilleary and Oren W. Metzger, The World's Most Famous Court Trial: State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. Complete Stenographic Report of the Court Test of the Tennessee Anti-evolution Act at Dayton, July 10-21, 1925, Including Speeches and Arguments of Attorneys, p. 299