A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship with the motion : "THBT Civil Obedience is justified to pursue justice"
My Favorite quote of the movie :
"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." - James Farmer Jr.
"I am here to help you to find, take back, and keep your righteous mind." - Melvin B. Tolson.
Melvin B. Tolson : Who is the judge?
Samantha, Henry Lowe, James Farmer Jr., Hamilton Burgess : The judge is God.
Melvin B. Tolson : Why is he God?
Samantha, Henry Lowe, James Farmer Jr., Hamilton Burgess : Because he decides who wins or loses. Not my opponent.
Melvin B. Tolson : Who is your opponent?
Samantha, Henry Lowe, James Farmer Jr., Hamilton Burgess : He does not exist.
Melvin B. Tolson : Why does he not exist?
samantha, Henry Lowe, James Farmer Jr., Hamilton Burgess : Because he is a mere dissenting voice of the truth I speak!
"Satya Graha! Means truth and fairness." - The Waiter.
"The state is currently spending five times more for the education for a white child than it is fitting to educate a colored child. That means better textbooks for that child than for that child. I say that's a shame, but my opponent says today is not the day for whites and coloreds to go to the same college. To share the same campus. To walk into the same classroom. Well, would you kindly tell me when that day is gonna come? Is it going to come tomorrow? Is it going to come next week? In a hundred years? Never? No, the time for justice, the time for freedom, and the time for equality is always, is always right now!." - Samantha.
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