- You had instructions to clean up the beast ! Those rags he's wearing are an offense to the dignity of this tribunal !
-This exhibit is indeed a man, therefore he has no rights under ape-law.
-This is a man, isn't he ?
-He's unlike every man you have ever seen, as we hope to prove.
-Answer the question, Dr. Zira. Is he a man ?
-Perhaps the question itself is the point at issue. Is he a man, a deviant or a freak of nature?
-Objection !
-Sustained.
-Dr. Zira, in all fairness, you must admit that the accused is a non-ape, therefore he has no rights under ape-law.
-Then why is he called "the accused" ? You must consider him guilty of something.
-He's not being tried, he's being disposed ! It's scientific heresey that he's being tried here.
-Then I'll defend myself !
-Silence ! Silence the animal!
-You may proceed, Mr Prosecutor.
-Learned Judges, my case is simple, it is based on our first article of faith. God, Almighty, created the ape in his own image, that he gave him a soul and a mind and set him apart from the beasts in the jungle and made him Lord of the planet. These sacred truths are self-evident. The proper study of apes is apes, but certain young cynics have chosen to study man, yes, perverted scientists who advance an insidious theory called "evolution"!