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Bartleby's Speech
00:00 - 02:43
During an academic trial, Bartleby delivers an impassioned speech about the importance of freedom and creativity and disagrees with conforming to traditions.
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Mr gains
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and so the question
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not how much unanswered questions you guys already made up your minds
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I'm an expert rejection I can see it on your faces
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and it's too bad that judges by the way we look
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and not by who we are
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just because you want us to be more like them
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when the truth is we're not like them and I am
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damn proud of that fact
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Mormon college in there and one hundred years of tradition
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she
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wants
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he's includes in
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humiliating anyone who's a little bit different
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a putting so much pressure on kids that turns it is the stress free some caffeine aren't phony school demeans real colleges everywhere
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why can't we both exist
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how
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you get your grades in your rules you're structuring your ivory towers
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and we'll do things our way
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what we have to conform to what you once
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you curriculum
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is a joke
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and you Sir are a criminal
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note June
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June rob these kids their creativity in their passion that's the real crime
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we got new parents did
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really work out for you
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to teach you to follow your heart and just play it safe
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rollover
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what about you guys
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Joe is one of the school administrators
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backgrounds and was that your dream
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or maybe not maybe you want to be
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a poet
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if you wanna be magician or an artist
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babies want to travel the world
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but
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I
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I lie to you
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I lied to all of you and I'm sorry dad
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especially you
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bite
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out of that desperation something happened that was so
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amazing
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was full of possibilities it and it isn't what you ultimately want for us
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as parents I noticed
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is that its possibilities
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well we came here today to ask your approval on
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and something just occurred to me
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I don't give a [censored]
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who cares about your approval we don't need your approval to tell us that what we did was real
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because there are so few troops in this world that when you see one
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you know it
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and I know that it is the truth
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the real learning took place at south Harmon whether you like it or not he did
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you don't need
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teachers are classrooms or fancy highbrow traditions our money to really large just the people with the desire to better themselves and we thought that
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such a shipload
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of self harm
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so you can go ahead
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sign your
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reject us and shoot us down and do whatever you got to do
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it doesn't really matter at this point
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because we'll never stop learning
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will never stop growing
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and will never forget the ideals that were instilled in us
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at our place
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because we are [censored] heads now
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and will be shut out forever
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and nothing you can say or do or stab can take that away from us so
