1:34:01
because it was guilt...
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that motivated her.
1:34:08
She's committed no crime.
1:34:12
She has merely broken
a rigid and time-honoured...
1:34:15
code of our society.
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A code so severe that whoever breaks it
is hounded from our midst...
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as unfit to live with.
1:34:25
She must destroy the evidence...
1:34:28
of her offence.
1:34:31
But what was the evidence
of her offence?
1:34:36
Tom Robinson, a human being.
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She must put Tom Robinson
away from her.
1:34:49
Tom Robinson was to her
a daily reminder...
1:34:53
ofwhat she did.
1:34:55
Now, what did she do?
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She tempted a Negro.
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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...
1:35:17
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.
1:35:38
The witnesses for the State...
1:35:40
with the exception
ofthe sheriff of Maycomb County...
1:35:43
have presented themselves
to you gentlemen, to this court...
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in the cynical confidence...
1:35:52
that their testimony
would not be doubted.
1:35:56
Confident that you gentlemen...
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would go along with them
on the assumption--