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to the gallows?
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- Don't you know -
- That's enough of that.
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Your Honor, I protest against
the prosecution's attempt...
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to force this woman to decide
which one of her two sons shall live...
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and which shall die.
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In her eyes,
these boys hold an equal place.
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Perhaps if my learned friend...
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knew more of the law -
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I may not know so much
of law, Mr. Felder...
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but I know what's right
and what's wrong...
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and I know what you're asking is wrong.
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Put yourself
in this woman's place, Your Honor.
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Can you truthfully say
you'd do differently?
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But look at her. She's - She's just
a simple, ordinary country woman.
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She can't even write her own name.
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Yet has she no feelings, no heart?
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I've seen Abagail Clay exactly
three times in my life, gentlemen...
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and yet I know everything
there is to know about her.
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I know her because I've seen...
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hundreds of women just like her...
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working in the fields, kitchens...
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hovering over
some sick and helpless child.
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Women who say little,
but do much...
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who ask for nothin'
and give all.
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And I tell you
that such a woman...
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will never answer the question
that's been put to her here.
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Never.
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I'd rather, Mrs. Clay,
see you lose both your boys...
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than to see you break your heart trying
to save one at the expense of the other.
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So don't tell him.
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May it please the court.
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To save the jury any more
of these harrowing outbursts...
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the State will withdraw the question...
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and excuse the witness.