Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JUDGE: Do not speak of your motives. That has nothing to do with the court...
...DANIEL: I have to speak of my motives, since this question was asked of me. I did not act on impulse. I thought about what I was doing, and fully knew what the consequences might be. I do not consider myself a public person, still less a political...
...thought some public personages might speak out publicly, but they did not. I was faced with the choice of acting on my own or keeping silent. For me to have kept silent would have meant joining those who support the action with which I did not agree. That would have been like lying. If I had not done this, I would have had to consider myself responsible for the error of our government. Feeling as I do about those who kept silent in a former period [the Stalin era], I consider myself responsible...
PROSECUTOR: The defendant has no right to speak of things that have nothing to do with the accusation and no right to speak of the actions of the Soviet government and people. I demand that Defendant Bogoraz [Mrs. Daniel's maiden name] be denied the right to continue...
JUDGE TO MRS. DANIEL: This is my third reprimand to you. You are trying to speak of your motives...