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Thaddeus Stevens:
How can I hold that all men are created equal when here before me stands, stinking, the moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio? Proof that some men ARE inferior, endowed by their maker with dim wits, impermeable to reason, with cold, pallid slime in their veins instead of hot, red blood! YOU are more reptile than man, George, so low and flat that the foot of man is incapable of crushing you! George Pendleton:
How dare you! Thaddeus Stevens:
Yet even YOU, Pendleton - who should have been gibbetted for treason long before today - even worthless, unworthy you ought to be treated equally before the law! And so again, sir, and again and again and again, I say, I do not hold with equality in all things, only with equality before the law!
How can I hold that all men are created equal when here before me stands, stinking, the moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio? Proof that some men ARE inferior, endowed by their maker with dim wits, impermeable to reason, with cold, pallid slime in their veins instead of hot, red blood! YOU are more reptile than man, George, so low and flat that the foot of man is incapable of crushing you! George Pendleton:
How dare you! Thaddeus Stevens:
Yet even YOU, Pendleton - who should have been gibbetted for treason long before today - even worthless, unworthy you ought to be treated equally before the law! And so again, sir, and again and again and again, I say, I do not hold with equality in all things, only with equality before the law!
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How can I hold that all men are created equal
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when here before me stands stinking
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the moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio proof
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that some men are inferior
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endowed by their Maker with dim wits
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impermeable to reason
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with cold pallid slime in their veins
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instead of hot red blood
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You are more reptile than man George
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So low and flat that the foot of man
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is incapable of crushing you
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How dare you
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Yet even you Pendleton
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who should have been gibbeted for treason
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long before today
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Even worthless unworthy you
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ought to be treated equally before the law
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And so again sir again and again and again I say
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I do not hold with equality in all things
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only with equality before the law
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Movie Summary
As the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.
Actors
Thaddeus Stevens
George Pendleton
General Robert E. Lee
