Albert Parsons Testimotomy: Albert Parsons

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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Albert Parsons is an innocent man because he is a husband that didn’t cause the bombing incident to occur at his speech. In Albert Parsons Testimony he stated, “We do not propose to bring an industrial confusion or a state of anarchy or to start a revolution in this country. We are peaceable citizens, husbands, fathers. We are citizens of the state and law-abiding men…. We simply want less work and Mr pay….” Parsons is saying that he doesn’t want any trouble in this country or try to bring any trouble to this country. He is saying that he is a person that you could look up to because he is a father, husband, law-abiding citizen and advocate. He wants people to see that he causes no harm and all he wants to …show more content…

In Albert Parsons Letter to his family he said, “My children-well, their father had better die in the effort to secure their liberty and happiness than live contented in a society which condemns, nine-tenths of its children to a life of wage-slavery and poverty.” All Albert Parsons wants to do is prove how corrupted this society is he didn’t want to cause any harm to anybody. He doesn’t want to start any problems, all he wants to do is prove a point that not everyone and everything was all good and peachy there were problems in this society that he was trying to expose. He was trying to expose the low wages of hardworking workers, the suffering of the poor that nobody pays any attention to. He just wanted to make everyone and everything equal because he sees that this world is not right. He wants to prove to his children that giving up on something that you want to fix is not right and anything you want to accomplish no matter the obstacles that might come in the way you push past it and you go after that goal. He was trying to tell his children that he would accomplish his goal of keeping their happiness and liberty safe from the disturbed and corrupted society they live in. He didn’t want to expose his children to the bad side of America so why would he do something fully knowing that it would lead to time in jail. Parsons is a smart, intelligent young man who fully knows right from wrong, he would never give up his whole life just like that he has much better things to live

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