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I didn't raise my kids
to sit in the back of the bus.
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You get in there
and you fight for your rights.
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I love you guys.
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Ladies and gentlemen ...
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Forget everything you've seen
on TV and in the movies.
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There will be no surprise witnesses
or tearful confessions.
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You're going to be presented
with a simple fact.
:44:58
Andrew Beckett was fired.
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You'll hear two explanations
for why he was fired.
:45:06
It is up to you
to sift through the facts -
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- until you determine
what you think to be the truth.
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Certain points must be proven.
One: Andrew Beckett was ...
:45:21
... is a brilliant lawyer.
:45:24
Two: Andrew Beckett,
has a debilitating disease.
:45:28
He made the legal choice to keep
this fact from his employers.
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Three: His employer discovered this.
The illness here is AIDS.
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Four: They panicked.
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They did what most of us
would like to do with AIDS.
:45:54
Get it and everybody who has it
as far away from us as possible.