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Stefan 2022-04-21 09:02:43
emotion in excitement
The story takes place in the South, where racial discrimination is quite serious, and comes from real events. It is the second work of Denzel Washington as a director. At the same time, he also served as the producer and star of the film - that is, in eastern Texas. Melvin Tolson, who teaches at...
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Missouri 2022-03-25 09:01:11
Speak the truth. Words are swords.
Biopics about racial discrimination in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s are also more inclined to inspirational films. At that time, China was being invaded by Japanese fascists. War and this film focuses on a different kind of war—a war of ideas and words
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James Farmer Jr.: We do what we have to do in order to do what we want to do.
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James Farmer Jr.: In Texas they lynch Negroes. My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck and set on fire. We drove through a lynch mob, pressed our faces against the floorboard. I looked at my teammates. I saw the fear in their eyes and, worse, the shame. What was this Negro's crime that he should be hung without trial in a dark forest filled with fog. Was he a thief? Was he a killer? Or just a Negro? Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children waiting up for him? And who are we to just lie there and do nothing. No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing. Just left us wondering, "Why?" My opponent says nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral. But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow south. Not when Negroes are denied housing. Turned away from schools, hospitals. And not when we are lynched. St Augustine said, "An unjust law in no law at all.' Which means I have a right, even a duty to resist. With violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter.
