Graduation Speech: Complaint The Plague

I am disappointed. I am not only disappointed in your failure to stitch the loopholes that have emerged in your morals. But I am disappointed that as a community it has come to this. We have disgraced the gift that we had ever so patiently been waiting for. If we can live through such horrific disease as the Plague and make it to a land oceans away with nothing but the clothes on our backs and still make a name for ourselves, then we should not be here. We should not be in this courtroom today. We are fighters, we have what no other people has. An underlying sense of hope. A sense that we can do better - a sense that we can always do better. Never to falling victim to societal tragedy - when did it absence, I do not see that expression anymore. I do not see that expression in my neighbors here today. I only hear the sad song that the mourning …show more content…
A man only trying to keep his good name clean, from the residue that the crow leaves. Ladies and Gentlemen, we are lost, wandering through the spiritual catacombs trying to find the light again. And that is a lonely feeling, it really is. Killing this good man will not make that feeling go away. Instead of wandering deeper into the depths of those catacombs, each of us must see that to find the way out, we must go back to where we started. Where we originally entered. Would you of have demonized this man if these recent events had not taken place? Tell me, how long until you get accused, how long until myself gets accused of Witchcraft. I can look at you all and tell you are sorrowful. Being Happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It simply means that you have decided to look over the imperfections. Mr. Proctor is no less of a man as any of you are. None of you here are better. When a man such as him, has such dignity, then he can only stand strong. Than you can only look down upon him when society strikes him to his