Truth forever on the Scaffold

The clip of Johnnie Cochran's final plea with the jury reminded me of something. Johnnie Cochran alludes to a scaffold that always sways the future, and that the throne (the judges and prosecutors) are forever wrong. Very poetic Johnnie, just not original and definitely not applicable to OJ Simpson. I think Johnnie Cochran pawned this "allusion" from a speech Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave titled "We Shall Overcome" in which he cites James Russell Lowell for the actual quote. It is funny to see how quotes have been used for different purposes in every facet of life.

Here is the speech we've already seen of Johnnie Cochran:

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Here is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. using it:

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And the actual quote from a poem by James Russell Lowell titled "The Present Crisis" (1845):

"Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow keeping watch above His own"

Congratulations Johnnie Cochran for totally misusing the quote on somebody like OJ Simpson!

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