Problem is, that a lot of people don't, and it always helps to have this stuff in one space. This was a good Special Comment. I'm not always on board with Keith a 100% of the time, though we are both Liberals, but this one was pretty good.
Long yes (almost 20 minutes), but good.
Legal issues probably prevented a Broadcaster from NBC/Universal from using a short clip from MGM's 1954 classic "Inherit The Wind", but YouTube places no such restriction...at least until the MGM Lawyers get ahold of it.
The really good part of the speech, the "you have the power to do more" the user unfortunately cut off.
But because I'm a screenwriter I gotta put the text up. Respect for the author...
Henry Drummond: I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy, you can only punish. And I warn you, that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys every one it touches. Its upholders as well as its defiers.
Judge: Colonel Drummond...
Henry Drummond: Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!
Judge: I hope counsel does not mean to imply that this court is bigoted.
Henry Drummond: Well, your honor has the right to hope.
Judge: I have the right to do more than that.
Henry Drummond: You have the power to do more than that.
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