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I wish to be recognised!
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All right. Chair recognises George Denham.
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I don't understand it. I'm sorry,
I just do not understand you people...
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how you can behave this way.
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The only person in this room that I have
any respect for is Aaron Caldwell.
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He is wrong, but he's wrong out loud.
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He doesn't sit and mutter
out of the side of his mouth like you.
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Now, you all talk like Janey Osgood
did something wrong to you on purpose.
1:04:34
The only thing that Janey Osgood did
was try to get for herself...
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what she righteously, morally,
and legally deserved.
1:04:41
She did not stop the rail service,
and you know it.
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Harry Foster Malone did that.
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He's your villain and not Jane Osgood.
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Where am I?
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I'm not in Cape Anne.
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You remember Cape Anne in 1949
and the big hurricane?
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All you people, you took 104 survivors off
the Atlantic Ocean right into your homes.
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And I don't remember any talk then
about the almighty dollar...
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or "what's in it for me," or "my problems."
Not then.
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Bottled gas.
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There's hardly a home in Cape Anne
that doesn't have a fireplace...
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where your female ancestors cooked
three meals a day, 365 days a year.
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And those women
that were cooking those meals...
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had one hand on a skillet
and one on a musket.
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An Indian happened to slip by the men
in the fields...
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he had every female in this town
to contend with.
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They tell me supper was hardly ever late.
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What is the matter with you people?
Don't you know where you are?
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Don't you realise? You're in a town meeting.
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And this is one of the last places
on this sweet earth...
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where the democratic process
is still going on.
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This is really America...
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or was.
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And the very soul of our system...
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is the dignity of the average American.