the impulse of every small step

Jeffry 2022-04-19 09:02:19

They are all extremely simple words, but in the context of black racial discrimination, everything seems to be more solemn and worth thinking about. Maybe we haven't lived through the era when we couldn't survive because of our skin color, but through this film we saw the efforts of black debaters to get rid of this unwarranted bondage, their love for debate, their love for the whole nation ...
1) They must do what they have to do, in order to do what they want to do
. Our dreams, we should do something, there are always those roads that are very close to our dreams that we must take, maybe there is no scenery we want, maybe there are only hot sun and gravel, maybe there are huge waves and rapids, But that's the way to go, it's what we have to do! Since there is no choice, just accept it with a smile...
2) All you of a little faith, why do you doubt?
All the emotions in the world are connected by a rope of "trust". Whether the other party is a real relative, friend, lover, or an ethereal spiritual realm, as long as you choose to believe, then don't doubt it anymore. Your emotions cannot withstand the damage caused by repeated doubts, and your spiritual belief will not accept one. Completely insincere believer.
2)—Who's the judge?
—The judge is
God.—Why is he God?
—Because he decides who wins or loses not my opponent. ( Because he decides who wins and who loses, not my opponent.)
—Who's your opponent?
-He doesn't exit.
-Why does he not exist?
-Because he is a mute distant voice the truth that I speak. .)
- Speak the truth!!! (Speak the truth!!!)
Loved this passage, and it seemed to me that they were biting nuts and shouting out these manifesto-like slogans. Debate - where the truth is spoken, in their day it seemed that debates were often closely related to the interests of the day, and their truth was to speak their real needs. But now, maybe my knowledge is too short. I always feel that many debate topics are indistinguishable. The in-laws have their own reasons. It depends on how your thinking changes. The villain, the one who convinces himself is the truth he thinks. From the need to shout out the truth seems to have become a teamwork experience, and perhaps this is another kind of progress.
3) Would you punch yourself on a street fight? Then don't punch yourself in a word fight. You don't have to make fun of yourself. Use your humor against your opponent. Your own face? Then don't even when you're fighting, you don't have to make fun of yourself. Use your humor on your opponent.)
A little trick in debating that also applies to our lives, even when we're not fighting, we You don't need to think of yourself as a clown all the time to belittle yourself to please others.
4) Whatever your instinct tell you, you listen. (Trust your instinct.)
It may be too arbitrary to act according to intuition, but this is always the most direct response when you face something, especially when you are unfamiliar with things that you have no experience to pursue, so listening to intuition and moving forward bravely is also a good thing Choose, maybe there will be a different scenery ahead. I once heard this sentence, "If you are rash, you will regret it for a while; but if you wait, you will regret it for a lifetime."
5)—What we supposed to do without you? (What would we do without you?)
—Win! (Win!)
Only winning is the most worthy of the behavior of the person who once paid for you. No one can live without him, and it is even more impossible to work. But without him, you can and should use better grades. Repay him for teaching you before.

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The Great Debaters quotes

  • Melvin B. Tolson: Take the meanest, most restless nigger. Strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining male niggers, female niggers, and nigger infants, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a horse facing an opposite direction, set him on fire, and beat both horses until they tear him apart in front of male, female and nigger infants. Bullwhip and beat the remaining nigger males within an inch of their life. Do not kill them but put the fear of God in them, for they can be useful for future breeding. Anybody know who Willie Lynch was? Anybody? Raise your hand. No one? He was a vicious slave owner in the West Indies. The slave-masters in the colony of Virginia were having trouble controlling their slaves, so they sent for Mr. Lynch to teach them his methods. The word "lynching" came from his last name. His methods were very simple, but they were diabolical. Keep the slave physically strong but psychologically weak and dependent on the slave master. Keep the body, take the mind.

  • Henry Lowe: School's the only place you can read all day. Except prison.