Response Journal on the Great Debaters
Quotation: “We do what we have to do, so that we can do what we want to do.”
Significance of the Quote When Abraham Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation on January 1,1863, he might not believe that Negroes would still be suffering from racism before the fifties of the 20th. Inspired by a true story, The Great Debaters plunges us into the South of the mid 1930s Texas America. In southern America Negroes’ living condition was still under the whites in many aspects, like education, work. Blacks endured the daily indignity of discrimination, and racial violence always simmered just beneath the surface. The white government used to control Negroes to make them physically strong and mentally weak. In the movie, Farmer also said, “We do what we have to do, so that we can do what we want to do.” He used words to inspire Negroes’ young generation to study, to fulfill their goals. He believed the best way to improve Negroes’ condition was education. They must do what they have to do, like finishing their education, going to university, studying for future they have, working responsibly. In order to Jia 2 do what they want to do.In the film, These debaters were competitors of the mind. Their battlefields were the great halls of knowledge, and their weapons were ideas, reasoning and persuasion.The debate team not only for personal glory; they could also be tools of change and enlightenment, they also fight for equal political rights with whites, study side by side with with the whites and equal human rights.
How this quote relates to my life I need to follow Farmer’s words. “I do what I have to do, so that I can do what I want to do.” What an inspiring quote this is, I should do my work first in order to play. I should make every effort in school in order to get in a good university to achieve my dream. No sweet without sweat, I must
Significance of the Quote When Abraham Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation on January 1,1863, he might not believe that Negroes would still be suffering from racism before the fifties of the 20th. Inspired by a true story, The Great Debaters plunges us into the South of the mid 1930s Texas America. In southern America Negroes’ living condition was still under the whites in many aspects, like education, work. Blacks endured the daily indignity of discrimination, and racial violence always simmered just beneath the surface. The white government used to control Negroes to make them physically strong and mentally weak. In the movie, Farmer also said, “We do what we have to do, so that we can do what we want to do.” He used words to inspire Negroes’ young generation to study, to fulfill their goals. He believed the best way to improve Negroes’ condition was education. They must do what they have to do, like finishing their education, going to university, studying for future they have, working responsibly. In order to Jia 2 do what they want to do.In the film, These debaters were competitors of the mind. Their battlefields were the great halls of knowledge, and their weapons were ideas, reasoning and persuasion.The debate team not only for personal glory; they could also be tools of change and enlightenment, they also fight for equal political rights with whites, study side by side with with the whites and equal human rights.
How this quote relates to my life I need to follow Farmer’s words. “I do what I have to do, so that I can do what I want to do.” What an inspiring quote this is, I should do my work first in order to play. I should make every effort in school in order to get in a good university to achieve my dream. No sweet without sweat, I must