Lincoln Sudbury High School - Dyad Yearbook (Sudbury, MA)

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti’s Speech Before Sentencing Performed by Katherine Reed During the First Annual Oratory Competition WHAT I say is that I am inno- cent, not only of the Braintree crime, but also of the Bridgewater crime. That I am not only innocent of these two crimes, but in all my life I have never stole and I have never killed and I have never spilled blood. That is what I want to say. And it is not all. Not only am I innocent of these two crimes, not only in all my life I have never stole, never killed, never spilled blood, but I have struggled all my life, since I began to reason, to eliminate crime from the earth. Everybody that knows these two arms, knows very well that I did not need to go in between the street and kill a man to take the money. | can live with my two arms and live well. But besides that, I can live even without work with my arm for other people. I have had plenty of chance to live independently and live what the world conceives to be a higher life than not to gain our bread with the sweat of our brow. Well, I want to reach a little point farther, and it is this — that not only have I not been trying to steal in Bridgewater, not only have I not been in Braintree to steal and kill and have never stole or kill or spilt blood in all my life, not only have I struggled hard against crimes, but I have refused myself the commodity or glory of life, the pride of life of a good position, because in my con- sideration it is not right to exploit 24 Oratory Contest man. | have refused to go in business because I understand that business is a speculation on profit upon certain people that must depend upon certain people that must depend upon the business man, and I do not consider that that is right and therefore I refuse to do that. I beg your pardon... You know if we would have Mr. Thompson, or even the brother McAnarney, in the first trial in Plymouth, you know that no jury would have found me guilty. My first lawyer has been a partner of Mr. Katzmann, as he is still now. My first lawyer of the defense, Mr. Vahey, has not defended me, has sold me for thirty [the word is dirty] golden mon- ey like Judas sold Jesus Christ. If that man has not told to you or to Mr. Katzmann that he know I was guilty, it is becuase he know I was not guilty. That man has done everything indi- rectly to hurt us. He has made long speech with the jury on things that matter nothing, and on the point of essence to the trial he has passed over with few words or with complete si- lence. This was a premeditation in or- der to give to the jury the impresison that my own defender has nothing good to say, has nothing good to urge We have been moved... touched... inspired .. . Such was the essence of | the First Annual Lincoln-Sudbury Oratory Contest. Filing into the Roger's }) Theater that morning, all of us anticipated, well, speeches. But what we t were offered transcended mere utterance. Lynne Berry gave life and breath to Susan B. Anthony’s defense of the rights of women . . . Corey McNair immortalized the Reverend Jesse Jackson, reminding us to trust in our dreams and ourselves .. . a variety of presentations made us ponder and imagine, particularly Kathy Reed’s impassioned plea for justice . . . what |) came of it all? A broader emotional perspective .. . perhaps a new vision of ¥) humanity. - Chloe” | in defense of myself, and therefore go around the bush on little things that amount to nothing and let pass the essential points either in silence or with a very weakly resistance. We were tried during a time that has now passed into history. I mean by that, a time when there was a hysteria of resentment and hate against the people of our princi- ples, against the foreigner, against slackers, and it seems to me—rather, I am positive of it, that both you and Mr. Katzmann has done all what it were in your power in order to work out, in order to agitate still more the pas- sion of the juror, the prejudice of the juror, against us. I have never spilt blood, and I have fought against the crime, and I have fought and I have sacrificed myself even to eliminate the crimes that the law and the church legitimate and sanctify. This is what I say: I would not wish to a dog or a snake, to the most low and misfortunate creature of the earth—I would not wish to any of them what I have had to suffer for things that I am not guilty of. But my conviction is that I have suffered for things that I am guilty of. I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian; I have suffered more for my family and for my beloved than for myself; but I am so convinced to be right that if you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what | have done already.

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MLK Day At the Martin Luther King Day Assembly this year, the M.L.K. Action Project present- ed the second annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Award. The award was established last year in memory of Dr. King to hon- or a person who is working in the greater Boston area in the fight for King’s vision of a just society. The award helps to fo- cus the school’s celebration of the holiday. This year, the award was presented to Barbara Arnwine. Arnwine, a lawyer, has been working to end dis- crimination. Recently, she won a case in court which helped to end segregation in Boston’s public housing. Soon after MLK Day, she moved to Wash- ington to head the national of- fice of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. -Chris Paciorek An inspiring orator, guest speaker Barbara Arnwine encouraged us to first thoroughly learn about the injustices of the world and then act against them with passion and a search for truth. Antoine Glass and the LS Gospel Choir encour- age the audience to join in singing “We Shall Overcome” . . . one of the true anthems of the Civil Rights Movement. “If you don’t stand for Something, oe fall for aT - Bishop Sheean 25