The Great Debaters Comments

  • Jannie 2021-12-26 08:01:01

    This is the power of...

  • Amani 2021-12-26 08:01:01

    Very inspirational,...

  • Sarah 2021-12-26 08:01:01

    The power of...

  • Krystal 2021-12-26 08:01:01

    The film is a very ambitious work. Whether it is the passionate speech of Frist Whitaker in the opening, or the solemn and solemn scenes and soundtrack at the end, it shows that the director wants to make it into an excellent work....

  • Chauncey 2021-12-26 08:01:01

    The power of...

  • Taryn 2021-12-26 08:01:01

    Inspiring debater growth biography, I hope to always favor people who never slack...

  • Annette 2021-12-26 08:01:01

    Language is firm and...

  • Reed 2021-12-26 08:01:01

    At the end of the debate, I saw my...

  • Holden 2021-12-26 08:01:01

    A movie that feels very good. When I watch them debate, I will be excited. It feels quite...

  • Camylle 2021-12-26 08:01:01

    Very nice and...

Extended Reading
  • Donavon 2022-03-20 09:02:04

    After watching the movie

    First of all, the little Jame in the opening line said we do what we have to do so we can do what we want to do (we do what we have to do in order to do what we want to do), Dad taught his son A loving father's heart is beautifully displayed. Secondly, the paragraph that Mel made the four team...

  • Joyce 2022-04-21 09:02:43

    a little grumble

    The film itself is not a classic, nor is its approach new. But still impressed. What touched itself was not the film, but seeing the meaning of the debate. The End of the Movie: Just seven years later, in 1942, James Farmer Jr. founded the Congress of Racial Equality and became a leader in the...

The Great Debaters quotes

  • James Farmer Jr.: We can't win without him!

    [Melvin Tolson]

    Samantha: You're wrong, we can't win without him.

    [as she tosses a book at Farmer]

    James Farmer Jr.: Thoreau?

  • Henry Lowe: A brilliant young woman I know was asked once to support her argument in favor of social welfare. She named the most powerful source imaginable: the look in a mother's face when she cannot feed her children. Can you look that hungry child in the eyes? See the blood on his feet from working barefoot in the cotton fields. Or do you ask his baby sister with her belly swollen from hunger if she cares about her daddy's work ethics?