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11-27-2006, 07:18 AM
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Favorite SPEECH from a movie
I was inspired to start this thread after watching Paul Newman in 'The Verdict' last night. Still a great film. In his summation to the jury, having fought one of the worse-planned legal cases ever captured on celluloid, he delivers the following to the jury:
"You know, so much of the time we're just lost. We say, "Please, God, tell us what is right; tell us what is true." And there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time, we become dead... a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims... and we become victims. We become... we become weak. We doubt ourselves, we doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law. But today you are the law. You ARE the law. Not some book... not the lawyers... not the, a marble statue... or the trappings of the court. See those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are... they are, in fact, a prayer: a fervent and a frightened prayer. In my religion, they say, "Act as if ye had faith... and faith will be given to you." IF... if we are to have faith in justice, we need only to believe in ourselves. And ACT with justice. See, I believe there is justice in our hearts."Magical. Truly magical.
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11-27-2006, 07:24 AM
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Samuel Jackson at the end of Pulp Fiction.
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There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back. - Life-Line, Robert A. Heinlein, 1939
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11-27-2006, 07:41 AM
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Kenneth Branagh as Henry V's St. Crispin's day speech.
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"People can talk themselves into moral obscenities as long as they only talk to other people who think exactly like them" - Orson Scott Card
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11-27-2006, 08:31 AM
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"Never underestimate the strength of a woman. Never f@#k with one who runs 26.2 miles for fun."
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11-27-2006, 09:56 AM
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