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...where I was born
and which I've studied for 40 years.
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I see you with your families
under the evening lamp.
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I accompany you into your factories,
your shops.
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You're all workers and righteous men.
You will not say, like many:
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"What does it matter if an innocent man
is undergoing torture on Devil's Island?
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Is the suffering of one obscure person
worth the disturbance of a great country?"
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Perhaps, though, you've been told
that by punishing me...
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...you will stop a campaign
that is injurious to France.
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Gentlemen, if that is your idea...
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...you are mistaken.
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Look at me.
Have I the look of a hireling?
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A liar? A traitor?
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I'm only a free writer
who has given his life to work...
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...and who will resume it tomorrow.
And I am not here defending myself.
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Tremendous pressure
has been put upon you.
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"Save the army.
Convict Zola and save France."
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I say to you, pick up that challenge!
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Save the army and save France...
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...but do it by letting truth conquer.
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Not only is an innocent man
crying out for justice...
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...but more. Much more.
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A great nation is in desperate danger
of forfeiting her honor.
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Do not take upon yourselves a fault...
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...the burden of which
you will forever bear in history.
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A judicial blunder has been committed!
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The condemnation of an innocent man
induced the acquittal of a guilty man.
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And now, today,
you're asked to condemn me...