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Sit down, you. Sit down!
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I order you held in contempt
with a fine of $ 100...
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...or 10 days in the county jail.
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I protest against this injustice!
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The fine will be $200 or 30 days.
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But he can't put me in...
Why, all I said was...
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A trial for murder...
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...is the most solemn occasion
upon which men can be called...
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...to perform a public duty.
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Any further demonstration
and I shall order the courtroom cleared.
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- Proceed.
- May it please the court.
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The state's own witnesses...
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...have not been able to identify
these defendants...
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...as having even been
at the scene of the crime...
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...alleged in the indictment.
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We must insist that the state
give us facts...
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...instead of...
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...tittle-tattle here.
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Your Honor...
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...in the last 49 years...
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...mobs have lynched
6010 human beings...
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...by hanging, burning, cutting,
in this proud land of ours.
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A lynching about every three days.
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And of the many thousands
that comprise these mobs...
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...only 765 were ever
even brought to trial...
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...because their supposedly
civilized communities...
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...have refused to identify them
for trial.
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Thus becoming as responsible,
before God at any rate...
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...as the lynchers themselves.
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I did not put these representative
citizens of Strand on the stand...
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...to prove anything, Your Honor,
and ladies and gentlemen of the jury...
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...except that on their oaths...
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...to tell the truth and nothing
but the truth, so help them God...
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...they are liars!