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Final speech of George Milton's lawyer during a trial ( Of Mice and Men )

Publié le 23/01/2013

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Your honor , Ladies and Gentleman of the Jury , If you don't mind , I would like to take this last opportunity offered to us for justice . I imagine what you are thinking , for all of you , my client here this , is a man , even maybe a beast , who killed a person without reason, a man deprived of any feelings , but precisely , to judge a man, at least one must be in the secret of his thought, his misfortunes, his emotions , isn't it ? Don't we have to know what was in his mind that led him to do such act , above all ? If we only want to know the materials events , we are doing , like that , a simple superficial timeline of the events , a history for fools persons , for persons deprived of reason and compassion , but we aren't like that , are we ? So man...
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« Essay Of Mice and Men Since we are children, we learned to understand before judging : "learning to know, know to understand, understand to judge”, so if you understand , you wouldn’t judge him like a murder , but like a man who tried to give a dignified death to his friend.

I would like to finish with a French proverb which says: "Do not judge the tree by the bark “.. »

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