1:35:01
She was white,
and she tempted a Negro.
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She did something that,
in our society, is unspeakable.
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She kissed a black man.
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Not an old uncle...
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but a strong, young Negro man.
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No code mattered to her
before she broke it...
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but it came crashing down
on her afterwards.
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The witnesses for the State...
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with the exception
ofthe sheriff of Maycomb County...
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have presented themselves
to you gentlemen, to this court...
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in the cynical confidence...
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that their testimony
would not be doubted.
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Confident that you gentlemen...
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would go along with them
on the assumption--
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the evil assumption--
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that all Negroes lie...
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all Negroes are basically
immoral beings...
1:36:13
all Negro men are not
to be trusted around our women.
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An assumption that one associates
with minds oftheir calibre...
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and which is, in itself,
gentlemen, a lie.
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Which I do not need
to point out to you.
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And so...
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a quiet, humble,
respectable Negro...
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who has had
the unmitigated temerity...
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to feel sorry
for a white woman...
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has had to put his word
against two white people's.