After watching the movie

Donavon 2022-03-20 09:02:04

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 members shout with nuts is their belief that the debate will win, Who's the judge? The judge is God. Why is the God? Because he decides who wins or loses, not my opponent. Who is your opponent? He doesn't exist. Why does he not exist? He's merely a dissenting voice to the truth I speak. The last sentence, St. Augustine said, "An unjust law is no law at all" is so right!

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  • Oran 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    Another hard time, we're all people of color

  • Isac 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    The adaptation is very successful, and the opponent still exists, it is myself.

The Great Debaters quotes

  • James Farmer Jr.: We do what we have to do in order to do what we want to do.

  • 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.