4 Quotes & Sayings By Richard Tillotson

Richard Tillotson was born in 1906 in Oxford, Ohio. He studied law at Yale University and graduated cum laude in 1929. At Yale he was an active member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, graduating at the top of his class, and served as president of his class during his senior year. During college he also worked for two summers on the New Haven Railroad Read more

After graduation, Tillotson established a law practice in New Haven. He became a prominent civil rights attorney during the 1930s and 1940s, defending individuals accused of crimes or subjected to prejudicial treatment by state or federal agencies. His most famous case was representing three black men accused of raping two white women in Cleveland, Ohio.

All three were eventually acquitted by a jury despite overwhelming evidence of their guilt. Richard Tillotson died on December 8, 1995.

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but a word is worth a million pictures. A billion. As many as there are people who know the word. Each has their own picture, their own meaning of it, in their heads. It's theirs. It's unique. And yet they share it with everyone else. And every time they use a word, a single word, they contribute to the creation of the soul of us all. Richard Tillotson
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University departments wanted to hire sober, rational researchers and teachers. You were allowed revelatory, apocalyptic experiences only after you had tenure. Richard Tillotson
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Why were things funny? Was God laughing at us? Or was laughter the dispensation of God? Maybe laughter itself was Godlike. When we laugh, we rise above pain. We rise above indignity. We even rise above incredulity. We "get it." Maybe in the way God "gets it. Richard Tillotson