Eng The Great Debaters (2007)

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# My soul is a witness #

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# Soul is a witness #

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- # My soul is a witness #
- # Yeah, yeah #

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- # Soul is a witness #
- # Oh, yeah #

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- # Before I go #
- # Oh #

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- # Before I go #
- # 'Fore I go #

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# Before I go, soul is a witness #

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Heavenly Father, we come before Thee,

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knee bent and body bowed

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in the humblest way
that we know how.

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Father, who controls
and knows all things,

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both the living
and dying of all creatures.

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Give us the strength and the wisdom
to do Thy work.

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In God's name we pray.

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And all God's people say, "Amen."

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- # My soul is a witness #
- Amen.

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- # Water, wine #
- # So high #

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- # Water, wine #
- # Wine #

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# Water, wine, soul is a witness #

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# Soul is a witness #

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# Soul is a witness #

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- # Soul #
- # Soul is a witness #

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- # Soul #
- # Witness #

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- # Witness #
- # Witness #

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- # Witness #
- # Witness #

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- # Witness #
- # Soul is a witness #

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When Agave sobered up,

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she looked down and saw
the head of her son Pentheus

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- right there in her hands.
- She thought he was a wild animal.

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That's how Dionysus got his revenge.

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You a heathen, Henry.

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You know what I got right here?

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- What?
- Some of that very wine.

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"When I was a child, I spake as a child.

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"I understood as a child.

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"I thought as a child.

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"But when I became a man,

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I put away all childish things."

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- # Early one mornin' #
- # Early one mornin' #

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- # Down the road #
- # Early one mornin' #

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- # Early one mornin' #
- # Early one mornin' #

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# Down the road #

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Freshman class...

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I believe we are the most privileged
people in America,

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because we have
the most important job

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in America:

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The education of our young people.

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# I was traveling #

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# Partner too #

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# Goin' down the road #

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# Goin' down to say #

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# My soul is a witness #

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- # Souls are born #
- # Goin' home #

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- # Soul is a witness #
- # Goin' home #

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# Souls are born #

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- # Soul is a witness #
- # Witness #

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- # Before I go #
- # When I go #

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- # Before I go #
- # Go #

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Trudell!

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- Who the hell is he?
- Oh, he's just my husband.

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I'm gonna cut your head off.

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We must impress upon our young people

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that there will be difficulties
that they face.

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Come on, Trudell.
Come get this whuppin', boy.

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- Get him down, Trudell.
- Scared, ain't ya?

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Huh? You with the razor
and twice my size?

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They must defeat them!

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They must do what they have to do
in order to do what they want to do.

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Come on, now.

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Come on, baby!

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Education is the only way out.

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Come on, baby. Get up!
Get up, baby. Come on!

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The way out of ignorance...

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Like cuttin' people, huh, boy?

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Want to cut people, Trudell, huh?

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Get your hands off me!

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The way out of darkness!

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Into...

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the glorious light.

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Come on, now! Give it back!

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- Give it back!
- "To our precious Hamilton..."

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This isn't funny. Come on.
Dunbar, give it back.

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Who do you think you are?
Jesse Owens?

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Have a seat.

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"I am...

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"the darker brother.

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"They send me to eat in the kitchen
when company comes.

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"But I laugh, and I eat well,

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"and I grow strong.

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"Tomorrow, I will sit at the table
when company comes.

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"Nobody'll dare say to me,

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"'Eat in the kitchen' then.

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"Besides, they'll see how beautiful I am,

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"and be ashamed.

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I, too, am America."

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Who wrote that?

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Langston Hughes, 1924.

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1925.

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"Hating you shall be a game
played with cool hands."

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"Memory will lay its hands
upon your breast,

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and you will understand my hatred."

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Gwendolyn Bennett wrote that.

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She was born in 1902.

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Unofficially.

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You see, in most states,

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Negroes were denied birth certificates,

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which means I can
lie about my age the rest of my life.

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You think that's funny?

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To be born...

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without record.

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Mr. Reed, hand these out.

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I'm going to introduce you
to some new voices this semester.

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There's a revolution going on.

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In the North. In Harlem.

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They're changing the way
Negroes in America think.

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I'm talking about poets
like Hughes, Bennett,

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Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen...

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"Some are teethed on a silver spoon,

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"with the stars strung up for a rattle.

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"I cut my teeth
as a black raccoon...

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...for implements of battle."

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Meet me after class.

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What's a professor doing
in the middle of the night

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dressed like a cotton-chopper?

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What is a student doing
in the middle of the night

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throwing his life away?

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It's funny. I thought
I was defending myself.

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Mm.

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I remember you.

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Couple of years ago.
Then you disappeared.

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What happened?

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I come and go whenever it suits me.

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- Suspensions?
- Leaves of absence.

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Why'd you come back?

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School's the only place
you can read all day.

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Except prison.

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I want you to come by
my house tonight, 7:30.

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- Corner of June and Campus.
- Why would I do that?

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Holding tryouts for the debate team.

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- You sure you want somebody like me?
- No.

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That's why you're trying out.

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7:30.

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June and Campus.

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"Driven by the wind and tossed..."

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Do well tonight, Junior.

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Of the 360 students here at Wiley College,

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only 45 of you were brave enough
to try out for the debate team.

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Of that 45, only four
of you will remain standing

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when the tryouts are over... why?

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Because debate is
blood sport. It's combat.

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But your weapons are words.

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Come on in.

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Now that Mr. Farmer
has joined us, we can begin.

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Sit down, Mr. Farmer.

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Not right there. Over there.

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- Yes, sir.
- James. Right this way.

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Good evening, Mrs. Tolson.

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- Evening.
- Excuse me.

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We're waiting for you, Mr. Farmer.

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I'm going, sir.

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Thank you, Mr. Farmer.
You smell very good, Mr. Farmer.

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- Thank you, sir.
- You're very welcome.

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Gentlemen and lady.

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This is...

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the hot spot.

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You will enter it at your own risk.

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Mr. Tolson, what about
the debaters from last year?

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Don't ask a question you
already know the answer to.

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Get up here. You'll be first.

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Get right here. Hot spot.

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Debate starts with a proposition.

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With an idea..."Resolved:

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Child labor should be regulated
by the federal government."

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The first debater argues
the affirmative.

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Affirmative means
that you are for something.

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Mr. Reed will argue the affirmative.

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The second debater
argues the negative.

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Negative means that you are what?

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Against.

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Brilliant, Mr. Burgess.

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You shall argue
the affirmative, Mr. Reed. Go.

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Well, sir, I'd begin with a quote
from the poet Cleghorn.

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"The golf links lie so near the mill,

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"that almost every day,

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"the laboring children
can look out and...

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and..."

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# And watch the men at play #

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Is that what you learned
from last year, Mr. Reed?

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To start something,
and not finish it?

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- Is it?
- No, sir.

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Sit down.

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Who's next? You? Stand up.

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Stand up.

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It's getting late.
How much longer can you hide?

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I'm not hiding, sir.
I transferred from my college

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just to come here
and try out for your team.

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I am deeply moved. What's your name?

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Samantha Booke.

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- Book?
- With an "e."

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Arise, Miss Booke. With an "e."

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Into the hot spot,
Miss Booke with an "e."

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You know, there's never been a female
on the debating team, ever.

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Yes, sir. I know that.

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What makes you think
you should be the first?

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Because, sir, I am just as qualified as...

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- quit stammering, Miss Booke.
...anybody else here.

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- My gender has nothing...
- "Resolved:

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Welfare discourages hard work."

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- You'll argue the negative.
- All right.

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Welfare takes away a man's
strongest reason for working,

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which is survival.

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And that weakens the will of the poor.

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How would you rebut that,
Miss Booke with an "e"?

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I would say it does not.

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Most of the New Deal
goes to children, anyway,

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and to the handicapped,
and to old people...

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- Is that fact, or conjecture?
- It is a fact.

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- Speak up.
- It is a fact.

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- What's your source?
- The president.

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- Of the United States?
- Yes, sir.

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That's your primary source? You spoke
to President Roosevelt personally?

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Of course not. I did not
speak to him personally,

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but I listened to his Fireside Chat.

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- Oh, a radio broadcast.
- Yes.

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- Any other sources?
- Well...

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Any other sources?

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Yes, there are other sources.

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Like that look in a mother's eyes
when she can't feed her kids.

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Without welfare, Mr. Tolson,
people would be starving.

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Who's starving, Miss Booke?

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- The unemployed are starving.
- Mr. Burgess here.

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He's unemployed.
Obviously, he's not starving.

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I drew you in, Miss Booke.

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You gave a faulty premise,
so your syllogism fell apart.

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- "Syllogism"?
- Your logic fell apart.

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Major premise:
The unemployed are starving.

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Minor premise:
Mr. Burgess is unemployed.

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Conclusion: Mr. Burgess is starving.

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Your major premise was
based on a faulty assumption.

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Classic fallacy. Who's next?

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You were right.

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Tell us your name.

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I'm Henry Lowe. With an "e."

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All right, Mr. Lowe. I will name a subject.

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You speak a few words...
a pertinent quote from world literature.

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Go ahead.

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Beauty.

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"I heard the old, old men say,

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all that is beautiful
drifts away, like the waters."

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Very good.

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History. And name
the author this time.

256
00:14:40,748 --> 00:14:43,842
"History is a nightmare,
from which I am trying to awake."

257
00:14:43,918 --> 00:14:45,283
James Joyce.

258
00:14:48,389 --> 00:14:50,050
Self-pity.

259
00:14:53,295 --> 00:14:57,527
"I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself."

260
00:14:57,599 --> 00:14:58,896
D.H. Lawrence.

261
00:15:00,702 --> 00:15:03,535
I love D.H. Lawrence. Have you ever read...

262
00:15:03,573 --> 00:15:04,631
Mr. Farmer.

263
00:15:04,740 --> 00:15:06,799
Yes, sir?

264
00:15:06,909 --> 00:15:10,345
I have eyes in the back of my head
and ears on both sides. Stand up.

265
00:15:12,782 --> 00:15:17,151
Tell me the irony in the name
"Bethlehem Steel Corporation."

266
00:15:19,188 --> 00:15:23,488
Bethlehem is the birthplace of Jesus,
Prince of Peace,

267
00:15:23,559 --> 00:15:26,392
and Bethlehem Steel
makes weapons of war.

268
00:15:26,463 --> 00:15:28,931
Very good. Sit down.

269
00:15:30,100 --> 00:15:31,089
Good.

270
00:15:31,169 --> 00:15:32,864
Who's next?

271
00:15:33,004 --> 00:15:34,801
That went well.
How will we know how we did?

272
00:15:34,872 --> 00:15:37,534
Samantha.

273
00:15:39,110 --> 00:15:41,078
Samantha.

274
00:15:43,448 --> 00:15:45,643
Tolson's tough, isn't he?

275
00:15:45,717 --> 00:15:47,708
He sure is.

276
00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,787
I'm James.

277
00:15:51,856 --> 00:15:53,915
Is your father Dr. James Farmer?

278
00:15:53,992 --> 00:15:55,983
Yes... yes, he is.

279
00:15:56,061 --> 00:15:59,462
I'm taking theology from him,
and that man speaks in tongues.

280
00:15:59,531 --> 00:16:01,590
French, Greek, Hebrew, Latin...

281
00:16:01,667 --> 00:16:03,328
How many languages
does he speak?

282
00:16:03,402 --> 00:16:07,498
- Seven languages.
- "Seven languages."

283
00:16:07,573 --> 00:16:10,406
He must be the smartest man in Texas.

284
00:16:10,510 --> 00:16:12,410
Well, that's not saying much.

285
00:16:13,546 --> 00:16:16,515
So why do you want
to be on the team?

286
00:16:16,583 --> 00:16:20,178
- I think it would be good training.
- For what?

287
00:16:20,253 --> 00:16:22,585
Bein' a lawyer.

288
00:16:22,656 --> 00:16:25,216
Lawyer? That's great.

289
00:16:25,292 --> 00:16:28,159
You know how many Negro
women practice law in this state?

290
00:16:28,228 --> 00:16:29,490
- Two.
- Exactly.

291
00:16:29,562 --> 00:16:31,587
One of them's my aunt.

292
00:16:31,665 --> 00:16:34,293
Well, look at you, Mr. Farmer.

293
00:16:34,367 --> 00:16:35,925
How old are you, anyway?

294
00:16:36,002 --> 00:16:38,596
I'll be 16...

295
00:16:38,672 --> 00:16:39,934
in 21 months.

296
00:16:40,006 --> 00:16:44,340
Young lady. James.
I just wanted to thank you.

297
00:16:44,444 --> 00:16:46,139
For what?

298
00:16:46,246 --> 00:16:47,838
Well, for your performance tonight.

299
00:16:47,948 --> 00:16:50,007
I mean, how many other students
ever stand up to Tolson?

300
00:16:50,118 --> 00:16:51,380
- I did.
- No.

301
00:16:51,453 --> 00:16:54,752
You answered a question,
and I spouted a few quotes.

302
00:16:54,824 --> 00:16:56,849
Miss Booke with an "e,"

303
00:16:56,926 --> 00:16:59,861
- she fought back.
- And lost!

304
00:16:59,929 --> 00:17:02,090
But you didn't have to lose.

305
00:17:02,165 --> 00:17:05,259
Why isn't a Fireside Chat
a legitimate source?

306
00:17:05,335 --> 00:17:07,735
Because Tolson says so?

307
00:17:07,804 --> 00:17:12,468
Nobody has better access
to those statistics than the president.

308
00:17:12,542 --> 00:17:16,945
Now, if you'd have called Tolson on that,
you would have won.

309
00:17:17,046 --> 00:17:21,779
I don't know. I'm sure that man
would have come up with something.

310
00:17:21,851 --> 00:17:23,614
Good night, James.

311
00:17:23,686 --> 00:17:25,347
Can you believe he's

312
00:17:25,421 --> 00:17:27,480
- Good night, Samantha.
- 14 years old, and he's in college?

313
00:17:29,793 --> 00:17:32,557
You are gifted, all of you.

314
00:17:32,629 --> 00:17:35,097
So I want you to know that I chose
this team for balance,

315
00:17:35,165 --> 00:17:38,191
and none of you should
take it as a failure...

316
00:17:38,268 --> 00:17:40,395
as a denigration of your intellect.

317
00:17:40,472 --> 00:17:41,803
Denigrate. There's a word for you.

318
00:17:41,873 --> 00:17:44,808
From the Latin word "niger,"
to defame, to blacken.

319
00:17:44,876 --> 00:17:46,901
It's always there, isn't it?
Even in the dictionary.

320
00:17:46,978 --> 00:17:50,436
Even in the speech
of a Negro professor.

321
00:17:50,548 --> 00:17:54,678
Somehow, "black" is always
equated with failure.

322
00:17:54,786 --> 00:17:57,311
Well, write your own dictionary.

323
00:17:57,422 --> 00:17:59,890
And mark this as a new beginning,

324
00:17:59,958 --> 00:18:02,688
whether you make the team or not.

325
00:18:02,761 --> 00:18:07,926
The Wiley College Forensics
Society of 1935-1936 is as follows:

326
00:18:07,999 --> 00:18:10,627
The debaters...

327
00:18:10,703 --> 00:18:13,501
will be Mr. Hamilton Burgess
from last year's team...

328
00:18:13,572 --> 00:18:17,303
- Yea!
- Sit down, Mr. Burgess.

329
00:18:18,310 --> 00:18:21,507
Mr. Henry Lowe.

330
00:18:21,581 --> 00:18:23,481
Our alternates.

331
00:18:23,583 --> 00:18:26,916
Miss Samantha Booke. With an "e."

332
00:18:28,255 --> 00:18:30,917
And finally...

333
00:18:32,259 --> 00:18:34,523
Junior, slow down.

334
00:18:34,595 --> 00:18:36,688
- Where's Dad?
- Quiet. He's writing a lecture.

335
00:18:40,768 --> 00:18:42,702
- Dad.
- Junior.

336
00:18:42,770 --> 00:18:45,967
What is the greatest
weakness of man?

337
00:18:48,509 --> 00:18:50,636
Not believing? Doubt?

338
00:18:51,647 --> 00:18:55,105
That's it. Thank you, Junior.

339
00:18:55,184 --> 00:18:56,811
Matthew 14:31.

340
00:18:56,919 --> 00:18:59,513
- That will be the lesson.
- Dad.

341
00:18:59,621 --> 00:19:04,558
"O you of little faith,
why do you doubt me?"

342
00:19:04,660 --> 00:19:06,355
Dad?

343
00:19:06,428 --> 00:19:07,827
What is it, son?

344
00:19:07,896 --> 00:19:10,421
I made the debate team.

345
00:19:10,499 --> 00:19:12,592
Well, congratulations.

346
00:19:12,668 --> 00:19:14,568
And who is on your team?

347
00:19:14,636 --> 00:19:18,003
Um, there's four of us.
I'm one of the alternates.

348
00:19:19,007 --> 00:19:19,996
Who's ahead of you?

349
00:19:20,075 --> 00:19:22,566
Hamilton Burgess and Henry Lowe.

350
00:19:22,644 --> 00:19:25,272
And the other alternate's
Samantha Booke.

351
00:19:25,347 --> 00:19:27,008
There's a girl?

352
00:19:27,083 --> 00:19:29,278
She wants to be a lawyer.

353
00:19:29,386 --> 00:19:32,150
- A lawyer?
- She's very intelligent.

354
00:19:34,725 --> 00:19:36,852
Is she pretty?

355
00:19:36,961 --> 00:19:40,226
I don't know.
I never really noticed.

356
00:19:40,297 --> 00:19:43,323
Because extracurricular activities
like the debate team are fine,

357
00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,834
but you must not take
your eye off the ball, son.

358
00:19:45,904 --> 00:19:49,203
- Yes, sir.
- Hmph.

359
00:19:49,274 --> 00:19:52,141
So what do we do here?

360
00:19:52,210 --> 00:19:55,543
We do what we have to do,
so we can do what we want to do.

361
00:19:55,614 --> 00:19:58,048
What do you have to do right now?

362
00:19:58,116 --> 00:19:59,947
- My homework.
- So get to it.

363
00:20:00,018 --> 00:20:01,610
Yes, sir.

364
00:20:01,686 --> 00:20:07,249


365
00:20:11,364 --> 00:20:14,299
My daddy owns a grocery store
that has apples, bananas, cookies,

366
00:20:14,367 --> 00:20:16,267
doughnuts, eggs, figs,

367
00:20:16,335 --> 00:20:18,530
and "gonzola" beans.

368
00:20:18,605 --> 00:20:21,472
Right. What's a gonzola bean?

369
00:20:21,542 --> 00:20:23,601
- Hogwash!
- Hogwash!

370
00:20:23,677 --> 00:20:24,701
"Gonzola" bean?

371
00:20:24,811 --> 00:20:27,848
Ready, set, go!

372
00:20:27,848 --> 00:20:30,874
- Apricots, uh...
- Hogwash.

373
00:20:30,951 --> 00:20:32,418
What, no apricots?

374
00:20:32,486 --> 00:20:34,716
Look out!

375
00:20:38,492 --> 00:20:39,959
What was that?

376
00:20:40,060 --> 00:20:41,789
I'm not sure.

377
00:20:51,272 --> 00:20:52,739
Sit down.

378
00:20:52,807 --> 00:20:55,241
You stay put.

379
00:20:55,310 --> 00:20:57,301
Be still.

380
00:21:04,719 --> 00:21:06,619
What is it?

381
00:21:06,688 --> 00:21:08,349
It's a pig.

382
00:21:08,423 --> 00:21:10,118
Hit a pig.

383
00:21:10,224 --> 00:21:11,953
Shut up, dog!

384
00:21:12,061 --> 00:21:13,790
Junior, get in the car.

385
00:21:13,897 --> 00:21:15,831
What the hell happened to my hog?

386
00:21:15,899 --> 00:21:18,231
Sorry about that.
Came out of nowhere.

387
00:21:18,301 --> 00:21:19,495
I didn't see it coming.

388
00:21:19,569 --> 00:21:21,469
You done killed my hog, boy.

389
00:21:21,538 --> 00:21:24,166
Truly sorry. Gladly pay you for it.

390
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,107
How much...
How much you want?

391
00:21:29,246 --> 00:21:31,373
It's gonna cost you $25.

392
00:21:32,717 --> 00:21:35,379
Only have a few bucks on me
right now, but I can...

393
00:21:43,761 --> 00:21:45,854
I do have a check.

394
00:21:45,963 --> 00:21:48,022
My monthly check,
for Wiley College in Marshall.

395
00:21:48,132 --> 00:21:51,363
It's for $17.36.

396
00:21:51,435 --> 00:21:53,699
You may have that.

397
00:21:53,771 --> 00:21:55,705
I will endorse that over to you.

398
00:21:57,675 --> 00:22:00,269
You'll do what?

399
00:22:00,344 --> 00:22:02,437
I will sign the check over to you.

400
00:22:02,513 --> 00:22:05,107
Well, let me see it.

401
00:22:05,183 --> 00:22:08,675
It's in the car, with my wife.

402
00:22:08,755 --> 00:22:11,246
Gonna walk to the car now.

403
00:22:14,994 --> 00:22:17,019
Junior, get in the car.

404
00:22:23,136 --> 00:22:26,105
Give me that salary check, Pearl.

405
00:22:26,172 --> 00:22:27,935
We need that money, James.

406
00:22:28,007 --> 00:22:29,167
Just give me the check.

407
00:22:29,242 --> 00:22:31,437
Go on.

408
00:22:33,780 --> 00:22:35,941
His wife has it.

409
00:22:37,417 --> 00:22:38,645
I thought it was in here.

410
00:22:38,718 --> 00:22:40,276
Just relax. It's all right.

411
00:22:40,354 --> 00:22:41,685
It's in here. You'll find it.

412
00:22:44,158 --> 00:22:46,626
Here it is.

413
00:22:49,698 --> 00:22:51,393
Here it is.

414
00:22:54,069 --> 00:22:56,537
That check better be good, boy.

415
00:22:56,639 --> 00:22:58,607
It's good.

416
00:23:04,380 --> 00:23:06,177
Well, pick it up!

417
00:23:19,161 --> 00:23:22,494
Here it is.

418
00:23:22,598 --> 00:23:24,361
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Where the hell do you think you're going?

419
00:23:24,467 --> 00:23:27,334
You got to help us
get this hog in my truck.

420
00:23:27,404 --> 00:23:29,201
Come on. Grab the tail end of that, boy.

421
00:23:33,176 --> 00:23:34,700
All right, on three.

422
00:23:34,778 --> 00:23:37,406
One, two, three!

423
00:23:37,481 --> 00:23:40,143
Town niggers. They think
they're too good to get their hands dirty.

424
00:23:57,401 --> 00:24:00,734
- Dad...
- I told you to get in the car.

425
00:24:00,872 --> 00:24:03,841
When I tell you to do
something, Junior, you do it.

426
00:24:06,946 --> 00:24:08,004
Who's the judge?

427
00:24:08,081 --> 00:24:09,605
The judge is God.

428
00:24:09,682 --> 00:24:10,979
Why is he God?

429
00:24:11,050 --> 00:24:13,484
Because he decides
who wins or loses,

430
00:24:13,553 --> 00:24:14,645
not my opponent.

431
00:24:14,721 --> 00:24:15,745
Who is your opponent?

432
00:24:15,822 --> 00:24:17,289
He doesn't exist.

433
00:24:17,357 --> 00:24:18,984
Why does he not exist?

434
00:24:19,058 --> 00:24:21,822
He's merely a dissenting voice
to the truth I speak.

435
00:24:22,028 --> 00:24:23,723
Who's the judge?

436
00:24:23,763 --> 00:24:25,731
- The judge is God!
- The judge is God!

437
00:24:25,765 --> 00:24:27,255
Why is he God?

438
00:24:27,333 --> 00:24:30,666
Because he decides who wins or loses,
not my opponent!

439
00:24:30,770 --> 00:24:31,668
Who is your opponent?

440
00:24:31,771 --> 00:24:33,534
He doesn't exist!

441
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,198
Why doesn't he exist?

442
00:24:35,308 --> 00:24:38,937
Because he is merely a dissenting voice
to the truth I speak!

443
00:24:40,847 --> 00:24:41,836
Who's the judge?

444
00:24:41,916 --> 00:24:43,315
The judge is God!

445
00:24:43,384 --> 00:24:44,612
Why is he God?

446
00:24:44,685 --> 00:24:48,451
Because he decides who wins or loses,
not my opponent!

447
00:24:48,523 --> 00:24:49,717
Who's your opponent?

448
00:24:49,791 --> 00:24:50,985
He doesn't exist!

449
00:24:51,059 --> 00:24:52,583
Why does he not exist?

450
00:24:52,661 --> 00:24:56,188
Because he is merely a dissenting voice
to the truth I speak!

451
00:24:56,264 --> 00:24:57,561
Who's the judge?

452
00:24:57,632 --> 00:24:58,690
The judge is God!

453
00:24:58,767 --> 00:24:59,597
Louder!

454
00:24:59,668 --> 00:25:01,192
The judge is God!

455
00:25:01,336 --> 00:25:02,394
Why is he God?

456
00:25:02,437 --> 00:25:05,702
Because he decides who wins or loses,
not my opponent!

457
00:25:05,774 --> 00:25:06,763
Who's your opponent?

458
00:25:06,875 --> 00:25:07,967
He doesn't exist!

459
00:25:08,076 --> 00:25:09,304
Why does he not exist?

460
00:25:09,377 --> 00:25:13,006
Because he is merely a dissenting voice
to the truth I speak!

461
00:25:13,081 --> 00:25:14,048
Speak the truth!

462
00:25:14,115 --> 00:25:15,446
Speak the truth!

463
00:25:15,517 --> 00:25:17,075
Yes, sir, I do like to talk.

464
00:25:17,152 --> 00:25:19,017
Is that a virtue or a vice?

465
00:25:19,087 --> 00:25:23,854
Well, I have to admit I've always wanted
to be the quiet, mysterious type,

466
00:25:23,925 --> 00:25:26,018
only I couldn't keep
my mouth shut long enough.

467
00:25:26,095 --> 00:25:28,928
Would you punch yourself
in a street fight, Mr. Burgess?

468
00:25:30,266 --> 00:25:31,358
No, sir.

469
00:25:31,434 --> 00:25:33,129
Then don't punch yourself in a word fight.

470
00:25:33,203 --> 00:25:34,864
You don't have to make fun of yourself.

471
00:25:34,939 --> 00:25:39,876
Use your humor against your opponent.

472
00:25:39,944 --> 00:25:41,138
Mr. Farmer!

473
00:25:41,246 --> 00:25:42,270
Yes, sir.

474
00:25:43,681 --> 00:25:45,672
Happy Mr. Farmer.

475
00:25:45,783 --> 00:25:48,081
Tell us one thing we don't
know about your father.

476
00:25:48,152 --> 00:25:49,380
He was the first Negro Ph...

477
00:25:49,454 --> 00:25:52,821
One thing we don't know
about your father, Mr. Farmer.

478
00:25:54,759 --> 00:26:00,959
He walked from Florida to Massachusetts
to go to college at Boston University.

479
00:26:01,099 --> 00:26:03,226
He graduated magna cum laude.

480
00:26:03,268 --> 00:26:05,361
Mr. Lowe!

481
00:26:09,375 --> 00:26:10,603
Tell us about your father.

482
00:26:10,709 --> 00:26:13,269
Why don't you tell us something
about your father?

483
00:26:13,379 --> 00:26:15,438
We're trying to get
to know each other, Mr. Lowe.

484
00:26:15,547 --> 00:26:17,538
I was trying to get
to know you, Mr. Tolson.

485
00:26:17,650 --> 00:26:19,413
I'm not the one on the debate team.

486
00:26:19,485 --> 00:26:21,953
Are we not engaged
in a debate right now?

487
00:26:23,088 --> 00:26:25,318
All right.

488
00:26:25,391 --> 00:26:27,450
I'll take the affirmative.

489
00:26:29,863 --> 00:26:34,926
Take the meanest...
most restless nigger,

490
00:26:35,001 --> 00:26:36,969
strip him of his clothes

491
00:26:37,037 --> 00:26:39,232
in front of the remaining male niggers,
female niggers,

492
00:26:39,306 --> 00:26:40,466
and nigger infants.

493
00:26:40,540 --> 00:26:42,371
Tar and feather him.

494
00:26:42,442 --> 00:26:45,536
Tie each leg to a horse
facing an opposite direction,

495
00:26:45,646 --> 00:26:46,772
set him on fire,

496
00:26:46,881 --> 00:26:50,317
and beat both horses
until they tear him apart

497
00:26:50,384 --> 00:26:53,751
in front of the male,
female, and nigger infants.

498
00:26:53,821 --> 00:26:57,757
Bullwhip and beat
the remaining nigger males

499
00:26:57,825 --> 00:26:59,190
within an inch of their life.

500
00:26:59,261 --> 00:27:01,991
Do not kill them, but put
the fear of God in them,

501
00:27:02,030 --> 00:27:04,726
for they can be useful for future breeding.

502
00:27:04,766 --> 00:27:06,461
Anybody know
who Willie Lynch was?

503
00:27:06,535 --> 00:27:07,934
Anybody? Raise your hand.

504
00:27:08,003 --> 00:27:09,197
No one?

505
00:27:09,271 --> 00:27:11,535
He was a vicious slave owner
in the West Indies.

506
00:27:11,606 --> 00:27:14,040
The slave-masters
in the colony of Virginia

507
00:27:14,109 --> 00:27:16,441
were having trouble
controlling their slaves,

508
00:27:16,545 --> 00:27:20,003
so they sent for Mr. Lynch
to teach them his methods.

509
00:27:20,116 --> 00:27:23,608
The word "lynching"
came from his last name.

510
00:27:23,721 --> 00:27:27,919
His methods were very simple,
but they were diabolical.

511
00:27:27,992 --> 00:27:32,053
Keep the slave physically strong
but psychologically weak

512
00:27:32,129 --> 00:27:33,824
and dependent on the slave master.

513
00:27:33,897 --> 00:27:37,298
Keep the body, take the mind.

514
00:27:38,836 --> 00:27:43,933
I... and every other
professor on this campus

515
00:27:44,008 --> 00:27:46,636
are here to help you...

516
00:27:48,479 --> 00:27:51,448
to find, take back,

517
00:27:51,515 --> 00:27:55,884
and keep your righteous mind...

518
00:27:55,953 --> 00:27:59,616
because obviously you have lost it.

519
00:28:01,525 --> 00:28:04,221
That's all you need to know about me,
Mr. Lowe.

520
00:28:07,999 --> 00:28:09,591
Class dismissed.

521
00:28:12,838 --> 00:28:14,829


522
00:28:35,328 --> 00:28:36,386
Hey!

523
00:29:47,570 --> 00:29:49,094


524
00:29:52,309 --> 00:29:54,675


525
00:29:54,745 --> 00:29:55,803
Here you go, honey.

526
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:56,869
Thank you.

527
00:29:58,583 --> 00:29:59,515
Want to dance?

528
00:29:59,584 --> 00:30:00,812
Yes.

529
00:30:01,954 --> 00:30:03,182
Come on.

530
00:30:19,639 --> 00:30:21,436
You're a good dancer.

531
00:30:21,507 --> 00:30:23,236
Thank you. L...

532
00:30:23,309 --> 00:30:25,834
I practice in my room.

533
00:30:25,912 --> 00:30:27,846
Keep at it.

534
00:30:29,182 --> 00:30:30,615
Excuse me.

535
00:30:30,683 --> 00:30:32,241
Your punch.

536
00:30:32,318 --> 00:30:34,377
- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.

537
00:30:37,023 --> 00:30:39,048
I guess I better go
get me some punch.

538
00:30:39,158 --> 00:30:40,887
Here, you can have mine if you want.

539
00:30:40,993 --> 00:30:43,086
It's good.

540
00:30:43,197 --> 00:30:44,755
All right?

541
00:30:47,901 --> 00:30:49,994
You know I can take you to a place

542
00:30:50,071 --> 00:30:51,197
that plays real music, right?

543
00:30:51,272 --> 00:30:53,103
I'm not leaving here, Henry.

544
00:30:53,174 --> 00:30:54,106
Just for a spell.

545
00:30:54,175 --> 00:30:55,836
I'll bring you right back.

546
00:30:55,910 --> 00:30:59,107
And what would my chaperone say?

547
00:30:59,180 --> 00:31:01,205
We'll be back before she
ever knows you're gone.

548
00:31:01,349 --> 00:31:03,476
Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm.

549
00:31:07,055 --> 00:31:09,046
What's the matter? You afraid?

550
00:31:19,401 --> 00:31:20,800
What's the matter?

551
00:31:20,870 --> 00:31:22,201
You afraid?

552
00:31:30,814 --> 00:31:32,247
Excuse me.

553
00:32:04,950 --> 00:32:06,417
Mr. Tolson?

554
00:32:29,374 --> 00:32:31,274
Mr. Tolson!

555
00:32:38,751 --> 00:32:41,652


556
00:32:42,623 --> 00:32:44,648
# Hoo #

557
00:32:44,725 --> 00:32:47,250
# Woo-hoo #

558
00:32:51,666 --> 00:32:56,126
# I remember down
on block number 9 #

559
00:32:56,237 --> 00:32:59,536
# Couldn't hear nothin'
but them old convicts whine #

560
00:32:59,607 --> 00:33:02,041
# Singin' "How long #

561
00:33:02,177 --> 00:33:06,637
# Before I can change my clothes?" #

562
00:33:29,873 --> 00:33:32,000
It's time. Let's go.

563
00:33:40,050 --> 00:33:42,177
...break your back all day.

564
00:33:43,820 --> 00:33:46,050
And it's not right
when they lie to the government

565
00:33:46,123 --> 00:33:48,956
and tell them that sharecroppers
are just wage earners

566
00:33:49,025 --> 00:33:51,755
so they don't have to split
their farmer's subsidies with you.

567
00:33:51,828 --> 00:33:54,353
And that's why
the Southern Tenant Farmers Union

568
00:33:54,431 --> 00:33:55,693
wants you to organize:

569
00:33:55,766 --> 00:33:57,131
To make things right.

570
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:58,758
How? Strike?

571
00:33:58,869 --> 00:34:00,769
Hell, they'll just bring in the Mexicans.

572
00:34:00,938 --> 00:34:01,905
We'll organize them, too.

573
00:34:02,006 --> 00:34:04,975
Yeah, so they can shoot us all down:
White, colored, and Mexican.

574
00:34:05,009 --> 00:34:06,636
That's exactly what they
want you to believe.

575
00:34:06,677 --> 00:34:08,702
The farm bosses
want you to believe they'll make war.

576
00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:11,806
They won't. They may be fools,
but they're smart businessmen.

577
00:34:11,884 --> 00:34:13,249
And once we're organized,

578
00:34:13,318 --> 00:34:15,115
they'll see even guns can't stop us.

579
00:34:15,187 --> 00:34:16,484
Stopped them in Elaine.

580
00:34:16,555 --> 00:34:17,988
Why don't you talk about that?

581
00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:20,752
About how they killed
a hundred colored sharecroppers

582
00:34:20,827 --> 00:34:21,987
for trying to organize.

583
00:34:22,061 --> 00:34:23,153
That was 1919, friend.

584
00:34:23,229 --> 00:34:26,596
And that was my daddy
they gunned down, friend.

585
00:34:26,666 --> 00:34:27,894
We're sorry about that.

586
00:34:27,967 --> 00:34:29,935
But those men stood alone.

587
00:34:30,003 --> 00:34:31,300
That's my point.

588
00:34:31,404 --> 00:34:33,099
This is 1935.

589
00:34:33,206 --> 00:34:35,003
We've got the National
Labor Relations Board.

590
00:34:35,074 --> 00:34:36,371
We've got the AF of L.

591
00:34:36,443 --> 00:34:37,876
You ain't got shit!

592
00:34:37,944 --> 00:34:39,536
He ain't got shit!

593
00:34:50,958 --> 00:34:52,425
Here they come!
Here they come!

594
00:34:52,493 --> 00:34:55,223
Get the lights! Everybody get down!

595
00:34:55,296 --> 00:34:57,025
Get down. Shh!

596
00:35:02,336 --> 00:35:03,701
Shh!

597
00:35:41,812 --> 00:35:42,836
Come on!

598
00:35:47,951 --> 00:35:51,021
Let's get out of here!

599
00:35:51,021 --> 00:35:53,251
This way! This way! This way!

600
00:35:53,323 --> 00:35:54,381
Come on!

601
00:36:11,577 --> 00:36:13,238
Come on. Come on!

602
00:36:26,525 --> 00:36:27,822
Come on!

603
00:36:27,893 --> 00:36:29,861
All right. All right.

604
00:36:32,197 --> 00:36:35,598
What are you doing out here? Huh?

605
00:36:35,668 --> 00:36:37,727
I saw you... I was
walking by your house,

606
00:36:37,804 --> 00:36:39,135
and I saw you dressed funny.

607
00:36:39,205 --> 00:36:40,331
I'm dressed like them, son.

608
00:36:40,407 --> 00:36:43,501
You think they'd listen to me
if I was wearing a tuxedo? Huh?

609
00:36:43,610 --> 00:36:44,508
No, sir.

610
00:36:44,611 --> 00:36:45,600
Listen to me.

611
00:36:45,712 --> 00:36:46,838
You listening?

612
00:36:46,947 --> 00:36:49,313
You cannot tell anybody
what you saw tonight.

613
00:36:49,382 --> 00:36:50,349
You understand?

614
00:36:50,417 --> 00:36:51,975
Not even my wife
knows about this.

615
00:36:52,085 --> 00:36:53,552
I won't tell anybody, I promise.

616
00:36:53,653 --> 00:36:55,348
I promise on a stack of Bibles...

617
00:36:55,422 --> 00:36:56,354
Jesus.

618
00:36:56,423 --> 00:36:57,583
...I won't tell anybody.

619
00:37:01,796 --> 00:37:02,820
Come on.

620
00:37:39,736 --> 00:37:40,862
Junior?

621
00:37:42,672 --> 00:37:44,765
Are you just going to stand there?

622
00:37:45,942 --> 00:37:47,273
No, sir.

623
00:37:57,188 --> 00:37:58,519
Sorry I'm late.

624
00:37:58,590 --> 00:38:01,354
You're sorry?

625
00:38:01,493 --> 00:38:04,121
It's 1:00 in the morning.

626
00:38:04,162 --> 00:38:05,857
I've been looking everywhere for you.

627
00:38:05,897 --> 00:38:09,025
I went to Mr. Tolson's
house after the dance.

628
00:38:10,969 --> 00:38:13,733
I thought you might have done that.

629
00:38:13,805 --> 00:38:16,296
That's why I went over there.

630
00:38:16,374 --> 00:38:18,774
And I talked to Ruth.

631
00:38:18,843 --> 00:38:22,301
She said Tolson was gone
and that you weren't there.

632
00:38:22,380 --> 00:38:25,611
So I'm going to give you another chance.

633
00:38:26,985 --> 00:38:28,646
Where were you?

634
00:38:28,753 --> 00:38:30,721
I can't tell you, sir.

635
00:38:30,822 --> 00:38:32,050
Good Lord, boy.

636
00:38:32,124 --> 00:38:34,217
We've been worried to death about you.

637
00:38:34,293 --> 00:38:35,260
Junior...

638
00:38:36,897 --> 00:38:38,865
where were you?

639
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,197
I can't tell you, sir.

640
00:38:42,269 --> 00:38:43,201
Why not?

641
00:38:43,270 --> 00:38:44,862
I don't know.

642
00:38:44,939 --> 00:38:46,099
"I don't know."

643
00:38:47,709 --> 00:38:51,201
"I don't know" is not
an acceptable answer, Junior.

644
00:38:51,279 --> 00:38:52,712
Junior.

645
00:38:52,780 --> 00:38:54,839
Silence is not an option, either.

646
00:38:56,217 --> 00:38:58,151
Son, you been drinking?

647
00:38:58,252 --> 00:38:59,378
Honey...

648
00:38:59,487 --> 00:39:01,580
Because you must've been drinking
coming up in my house

649
00:39:01,756 --> 00:39:05,248
talking about you don't want to tell me
where you been at 1:30 in the morning?

650
00:39:05,293 --> 00:39:06,555
Baby, tell me, what's the matter?

651
00:39:06,627 --> 00:39:07,753
Mom, nothing's the matter.

652
00:39:07,829 --> 00:39:08,853
Something's the matter!

653
00:39:08,930 --> 00:39:10,955
Something is wrong!

654
00:39:11,032 --> 00:39:12,294
Were you with that girl?

655
00:39:12,366 --> 00:39:14,027
- You were with that girl.
- No.

656
00:39:14,102 --> 00:39:15,967
Because you're 14 years old, Junior.

657
00:39:16,038 --> 00:39:18,029
You've got plenty of time for girls later.

658
00:39:18,107 --> 00:39:19,301
I wasn't with Samantha.

659
00:39:19,374 --> 00:39:20,466
Junior.

660
00:39:22,411 --> 00:39:24,106
Then where were you?

661
00:39:27,249 --> 00:39:29,274
Where were you, honey?

662
00:39:31,053 --> 00:39:32,247
You don't want to talk?

663
00:39:32,354 --> 00:39:34,686
Fine.

664
00:39:34,757 --> 00:39:36,418
But you're not leaving this house.

665
00:39:36,526 --> 00:39:37,959
What do you mean?

666
00:39:38,027 --> 00:39:38,994
Just what I said.

667
00:39:39,095 --> 00:39:41,791
You're not leaving this house
until you tell me the truth!

668
00:39:41,865 --> 00:39:43,093
What about school?

669
00:39:43,166 --> 00:39:45,031
Don't go questioning
what I just said, boy!

670
00:39:45,101 --> 00:39:46,033
Mom, what about school?

671
00:39:46,102 --> 00:39:47,034
And don't raise your voice!

672
00:39:47,103 --> 00:39:48,092
I'm not raising my voice!

673
00:39:48,171 --> 00:39:49,502
You raising your voice in the house?

674
00:39:49,572 --> 00:39:50,504
Apologize to your father.

675
00:39:50,573 --> 00:39:52,097
I'm not raising my voice!

676
00:39:52,175 --> 00:39:53,506
You get a job, pay your own way?

677
00:39:53,576 --> 00:39:54,543
You're a man now?

678
00:39:54,611 --> 00:39:55,669
I'm not raising my voice!

679
00:39:55,746 --> 00:39:56,804
Just apologize!

680
00:39:56,881 --> 00:39:57,848
I didn't say anything!

681
00:39:57,916 --> 00:39:59,281
Why should I apologize?

682
00:39:59,351 --> 00:40:01,649
Like you apologized to that pig farmer?

683
00:40:01,787 --> 00:40:03,516
What did you say, boy?

684
00:40:10,395 --> 00:40:12,056
You go to your room.

685
00:40:15,100 --> 00:40:16,863
Okay, Junior...

686
00:40:27,913 --> 00:40:30,381
I'm not going to be weak on this, Pearl.

687
00:40:31,584 --> 00:40:32,915
I know.

688
00:40:34,387 --> 00:40:38,050
I can't allow my son to be corrupted.

689
00:40:38,158 --> 00:40:39,591
You're right.

690
00:40:41,061 --> 00:40:43,529
Let's just go to bed.

691
00:40:43,597 --> 00:40:45,428
I'll take him to school in the morning.

692
00:40:45,499 --> 00:40:46,966
All right?

693
00:40:48,135 --> 00:40:49,363
All right.

694
00:41:02,149 --> 00:41:04,014
I'm going to be honest with you, boys.

695
00:41:04,051 --> 00:41:05,416
I'm not well.

696
00:41:05,452 --> 00:41:08,046
I'm not well at all this morning.

697
00:41:08,121 --> 00:41:09,588
I'm sure sorry to hear that, sir.

698
00:41:09,656 --> 00:41:10,645
You look well to me.

699
00:41:10,724 --> 00:41:11,850
Don't he look well, Sam?

700
00:41:11,959 --> 00:41:13,927
Yes, sir. He looks real good.

701
00:41:13,994 --> 00:41:18,431
Now, we got some white fellas
from up north come into our town.

702
00:41:18,499 --> 00:41:21,468
They're stirring up trouble
between our coloreds and our whites.

703
00:41:21,536 --> 00:41:23,401
They say that we need to make a union:

704
00:41:23,472 --> 00:41:25,997
The sharecroppers
and the workers all together,

705
00:41:26,076 --> 00:41:27,270
colored and white.

706
00:41:27,344 --> 00:41:29,175
They need to make a union?

707
00:41:29,246 --> 00:41:31,180
How do you boys feel about that?

708
00:41:31,248 --> 00:41:32,510
I don't know, sir.

709
00:41:32,582 --> 00:41:34,573
I really ain't thought much about that.

710
00:41:34,651 --> 00:41:36,619
Well, it's a bad idea.

711
00:41:36,686 --> 00:41:39,177
It's a bad idea, take my word for it.

712
00:41:39,256 --> 00:41:41,156
Yes, sir.

713
00:41:41,224 --> 00:41:43,784
And they say that there was
some kind of secret meeting

714
00:41:43,860 --> 00:41:45,225
last night down near the lake.

715
00:41:45,328 --> 00:41:46,852
Now, do you boys know about that?

716
00:41:46,963 --> 00:41:48,362
No, sir.

717
00:41:48,431 --> 00:41:50,558
You don't know about that?

718
00:41:51,635 --> 00:41:53,296
- Samuel?
- No, sir.

719
00:41:53,370 --> 00:41:54,701
- You didn't hear about that?
- No, sir.

720
00:41:54,772 --> 00:41:56,069
- You swear to me?
- Yes, sir.

721
00:41:56,140 --> 00:41:57,664
Yes, sir, I swear.

722
00:42:00,511 --> 00:42:02,274
All right, then.

723
00:42:04,782 --> 00:42:06,272
See you later.

724
00:42:06,484 --> 00:42:09,112
Our first debate

725
00:42:09,153 --> 00:42:14,113
is one week from today.

726
00:42:14,191 --> 00:42:16,056
- One week?
- That's right.

727
00:42:16,128 --> 00:42:17,789
I thought Prairie View was first.

728
00:42:17,896 --> 00:42:20,729
Prairie View is tough,
so I thought we needed a warm-up.

729
00:42:20,799 --> 00:42:23,290
With the best Negro college in the state?

730
00:42:23,402 --> 00:42:25,131
That's right, Mr. Burgess.

731
00:42:25,203 --> 00:42:26,295
Does that frighten you?

732
00:42:26,405 --> 00:42:27,929
Yes, sir.

733
00:42:28,006 --> 00:42:31,100
One week's not enough time
to write our arguments.

734
00:42:31,176 --> 00:42:33,235
You do the research.
I'll write the arguments.

735
00:42:33,312 --> 00:42:35,177
Wait. You...

736
00:42:35,248 --> 00:42:36,681
You write the arguments?

737
00:42:36,749 --> 00:42:37,738
And you deliver them, Mr. Lowe.

738
00:42:37,817 --> 00:42:39,546
What the hell do I look like, a mailman?

739
00:42:39,619 --> 00:42:42,588
Hell is where you're headed
if you question me again.

740
00:42:42,655 --> 00:42:45,283
In theory, you look like a student.

741
00:42:45,358 --> 00:42:47,656
So what you're saying
is I'm not capable.

742
00:42:47,727 --> 00:42:48,887
It's not a matter of competence.

743
00:42:48,962 --> 00:42:50,020
It's a matter of experience.

744
00:42:50,096 --> 00:42:51,256
How do I know you write...

745
00:42:51,365 --> 00:42:53,060
I write the arguments!

746
00:42:53,167 --> 00:42:54,429
That's the way it's been!

747
00:42:54,535 --> 00:42:56,901
That's the way it's going to be!

748
00:42:56,971 --> 00:42:59,667
Any more questions?

749
00:43:01,308 --> 00:43:02,866
One week.

750
00:43:05,346 --> 00:43:06,472
I bring to you

751
00:43:06,547 --> 00:43:08,742
our first affirmative debater:

752
00:43:08,817 --> 00:43:12,981
From Paul quinn College,
Otheree Hubbard.

753
00:43:20,796 --> 00:43:25,199
Resolved: Unemployment
relief should be ended

754
00:43:25,301 --> 00:43:27,769
when the Depression ends.

755
00:43:27,870 --> 00:43:29,667
If the Depression ends.

756
00:43:29,739 --> 00:43:33,368
I traveled back through history to 1536,

757
00:43:33,442 --> 00:43:35,933
when the first Poor Laws
of England were mandated.

758
00:43:36,012 --> 00:43:39,345
In those days, the dole...
or welfare, as we call it...

759
00:43:39,415 --> 00:43:42,145
was funded by voluntary contributions.

760
00:43:42,218 --> 00:43:44,686
But, as time passed,

761
00:43:44,754 --> 00:43:46,915
the English devised the Allowance System,

762
00:43:46,989 --> 00:43:48,957
the first unemployment relief,

763
00:43:49,025 --> 00:43:52,358
only now it was paid
with involuntary contributions,

764
00:43:52,428 --> 00:43:54,328
more commonly known as taxes.

765
00:43:55,665 --> 00:43:57,997
The Allowance System was a disaster.

766
00:43:58,101 --> 00:44:00,968
The only real unemployment relief
is to give a man a job.

767
00:44:01,105 --> 00:44:04,040
But to do that, you have
to give the economy life,

768
00:44:04,075 --> 00:44:07,306
not tax it to death.

769
00:44:12,050 --> 00:44:14,245
When capitalism was young,

770
00:44:14,318 --> 00:44:16,411
the old puritanical concept of duty

771
00:44:16,487 --> 00:44:19,854
was, "He who does not work
shall not eat."

772
00:44:19,925 --> 00:44:21,790
That made sense
when there was more work

773
00:44:21,860 --> 00:44:23,555
than men willing to do it.

774
00:44:23,629 --> 00:44:25,187
But those days are gone.

775
00:44:25,264 --> 00:44:27,129
Now there are millions
who want to work,

776
00:44:27,199 --> 00:44:29,064
but find themselves
standing in breadlines.

777
00:44:29,134 --> 00:44:31,796
Now, should they not eat
because there are no jobs?

778
00:44:31,904 --> 00:44:34,065
People, today we need
a new concept of duty:

779
00:44:34,174 --> 00:44:37,143
The right of the individual
to demand from society

780
00:44:37,210 --> 00:44:40,145
just as much as he gives to society.

781
00:44:42,916 --> 00:44:45,783
We clutch at anything that
even looks like a solution.

782
00:44:45,852 --> 00:44:49,151
$60 million a month for public relief?

783
00:44:49,222 --> 00:44:53,022
Pay it out if it'll sweep
the hoboes off the streets.

784
00:44:53,094 --> 00:44:57,554
One seventh of the population
of the United States on welfare.

785
00:44:57,631 --> 00:44:59,963
Fine, as long as it ends our misery.

786
00:45:00,034 --> 00:45:04,437
A nation as desperate as this
is a danger to itself.

787
00:45:04,505 --> 00:45:06,496
That's right.

788
00:45:08,843 --> 00:45:10,310
Once,

789
00:45:10,411 --> 00:45:14,347
a Roman general brought peace
to a rebellious province...

790
00:45:14,449 --> 00:45:17,247
by killing all its citizens.

791
00:45:17,319 --> 00:45:18,980
Even his fellow Romans
were shocked.

792
00:45:19,054 --> 00:45:20,282
One of them wrote,

793
00:45:20,355 --> 00:45:22,653
"Solitudinem faciunt,
pacem appellant,"

794
00:45:22,724 --> 00:45:26,956
which means "They create desolation
and call it peace."

795
00:45:28,063 --> 00:45:29,860
Now, for all their facts and figures,

796
00:45:29,931 --> 00:45:33,765
the Paul quinn debaters would also
create desolation and call it peace.

797
00:45:33,835 --> 00:45:37,931
They would allow the unemployed to die
so the economy can live.

798
00:45:55,793 --> 00:45:57,420
A brilliant young woman I know

799
00:45:57,495 --> 00:46:01,431
was asked once to support her argument
in favor of social welfare.

800
00:46:01,566 --> 00:46:04,865
She named the most powerful source
imaginable:

801
00:46:04,903 --> 00:46:09,135
The look in a mother's face
when she cannot feed her children.

802
00:46:13,077 --> 00:46:15,477
Can you look that hungry
child in the eyes?

803
00:46:15,547 --> 00:46:16,912
See the blood on his feet

804
00:46:16,981 --> 00:46:18,949
from walking barefoot
in the cotton fields?

805
00:46:19,050 --> 00:46:22,076
Or do you ask his baby sister
with her belly swollen from hunger

806
00:46:22,153 --> 00:46:24,018
if she cares about
her daddy's work ethic?

807
00:46:34,366 --> 00:46:35,355
He's good.

808
00:46:37,069 --> 00:46:40,402
Wiley! Wiley! Wiley! Wiley!

809
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:43,841
Wiley! Wiley! Wiley! Wiley!

810
00:46:43,944 --> 00:46:46,742
Wiley! Wiley! Wiley!

811
00:46:46,846 --> 00:46:48,108
# Had a little girl #

812
00:46:48,215 --> 00:46:49,341
# She's little and low #

813
00:46:49,449 --> 00:46:50,814
# She used to love me #

814
00:46:50,884 --> 00:46:52,112
# But she don't no more #

815
00:46:52,185 --> 00:46:54,881
# You got to step it up and go, yeah #

816
00:46:54,955 --> 00:46:55,944
# Yeah, and go #

817
00:46:56,022 --> 00:46:58,513
The only thing that matters
is that big fish eat little fish,

818
00:46:58,592 --> 00:47:00,719
and the color of the fish
does not count!

819
00:47:00,860 --> 00:47:02,384
#... step it up and go #

820
00:47:03,597 --> 00:47:06,464
If the state of Mississippi
would have turned their heads

821
00:47:06,533 --> 00:47:08,899
each and every time
a Negro was lynched,

822
00:47:08,969 --> 00:47:10,596
shouldn't the federal government intervene?

823
00:47:11,740 --> 00:47:14,470
# Yeah, and go #

824
00:47:14,543 --> 00:47:15,976
# Well, you can't stand pat #

825
00:47:16,044 --> 00:47:18,740
# I declare you got
to step it up and go #

826
00:47:20,282 --> 00:47:23,217
# Front door shut, back door, too #

827
00:47:23,285 --> 00:47:25,082
# Blinds pulled down, whatcha gonna do? #

828
00:47:25,153 --> 00:47:28,020
Wiley! Wiley! Wiley! Wiley!

829
00:47:28,090 --> 00:47:30,854
Wiley! Wiley! Wiley! Wiley!

830
00:47:30,927 --> 00:47:32,485
# Well, you can't stand pat #

831
00:47:32,562 --> 00:47:35,690
# I declare you got to step it up and go #

832
00:47:37,834 --> 00:47:38,926
# Got a little girl #

833
00:47:39,002 --> 00:47:40,492
# Her name is Ball #

834
00:47:40,570 --> 00:47:42,697
# Gave a little bit, but she took it all #

835
00:47:42,772 --> 00:47:45,263
# You got to step it up and go now #

836
00:47:45,341 --> 00:47:47,332
# Yeah, go #

837
00:47:47,410 --> 00:47:49,605
And the winner is...

838
00:47:49,679 --> 00:47:53,046
# I declare you got
to step it up and go now #

839
00:47:53,150 --> 00:47:54,617
Wiley College!

840
00:47:54,718 --> 00:47:57,312
# Me and my baby
walkin' down the street #

841
00:47:57,421 --> 00:47:59,889
# Tellin' everybody
'bout the chief of police #

842
00:47:59,957 --> 00:48:02,221
# You got to step it up and go now #

843
00:48:02,359 --> 00:48:05,294
# Yeah, and go #

844
00:48:05,329 --> 00:48:06,887
# Well, you can't stand pat #

845
00:48:06,930 --> 00:48:09,626
# I declare you got
to step it up and go #

846
00:48:11,402 --> 00:48:14,269
# If you see my woman,
tell her "Hurry home" #

847
00:48:14,338 --> 00:48:16,602
# Ain't had no lovin'
since she been gone #

848
00:48:16,674 --> 00:48:18,642
# You got to step it up and go now #

849
00:48:18,709 --> 00:48:22,236
Wiley! Wiley! Wiley! Wiley! Wiley!

850
00:48:22,313 --> 00:48:23,712
# Well, you can't stand pat #

851
00:48:23,782 --> 00:48:26,615
# I declare you got
to step it up and go #

852
00:48:27,886 --> 00:48:29,251
# Well, I'll sing this verse #

853
00:48:29,321 --> 00:48:30,913
# Ain't gonna sing no more #

854
00:48:31,023 --> 00:48:32,820
# Hear my gal call... #

855
00:48:32,892 --> 00:48:33,984
That's right, Captain.

856
00:48:34,060 --> 00:48:35,652
I think I've got the ringleader.

857
00:48:37,531 --> 00:48:41,092
Uh, all right,
if that's what you want.

858
00:48:42,102 --> 00:48:43,967
Yeah. Okey-dokey, then.

859
00:48:44,037 --> 00:48:45,436
Bye-bye.

860
00:48:47,341 --> 00:48:48,501
Shit.

861
00:48:48,575 --> 00:48:50,042
Who was that?

862
00:48:50,110 --> 00:48:51,577
Captain Wainwright.

863
00:48:51,645 --> 00:48:53,408
Texas Rangers?

864
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:54,674
Mm-hmm.

865
00:48:56,149 --> 00:49:00,051
He wants me to, uh, hold off
on picking this fella up

866
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,213
until him and his boys get up here.

867
00:49:02,389 --> 00:49:04,619
Shit. Wants to get
his picture in the paper.

868
00:49:04,658 --> 00:49:05,682
Yeah.

869
00:49:05,759 --> 00:49:08,853
We do all the work,
they get all the glory.

870
00:49:08,929 --> 00:49:10,453
Yep.

871
00:49:11,999 --> 00:49:16,671
I guess that's just the way the world is.

872
00:49:16,672 --> 00:49:18,537
Isn't that right, Samuel?

873
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:26,971
I have an announcement
to make. Excuse me.

874
00:49:28,150 --> 00:49:30,618
Recently, l... uh, we...

875
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:32,186
Mm-hmm.

876
00:49:32,254 --> 00:49:35,690
...sent some letters
to some major universities.

877
00:49:35,758 --> 00:49:37,783
Told them all about us, our team,

878
00:49:37,893 --> 00:49:39,326
what we've been doing,

879
00:49:39,395 --> 00:49:43,354
and, uh, yesterday
we got a response.

880
00:49:44,566 --> 00:49:46,761
From Oklahoma City University.

881
00:49:46,835 --> 00:49:48,268
Aren't they...?

882
00:49:48,337 --> 00:49:50,202
Anglo-Saxon? Yes. Yes.

883
00:49:50,273 --> 00:49:52,104
We'll be the first Negro college in America...

884
00:49:52,175 --> 00:49:54,370
well, one of the first Negro
colleges in America...

885
00:49:54,444 --> 00:49:55,911
to ever debate a white college.

886
00:49:55,979 --> 00:49:57,071
All right!

887
00:49:57,147 --> 00:49:58,774
University of Oklahoma!

888
00:49:58,848 --> 00:50:02,215
Not University of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City University.

889
00:50:02,352 --> 00:50:05,082
The debate will take place
at an off-campus site.

890
00:50:05,122 --> 00:50:06,783
Wait. An off-campus site? Why?

891
00:50:06,891 --> 00:50:08,916
Because sometimes, Mr. Lowe,

892
00:50:09,027 --> 00:50:11,291
you have to take things
one step at a time.

893
00:50:11,363 --> 00:50:13,160
So what you're saying is
the crackers in Oklahoma

894
00:50:13,231 --> 00:50:14,630
ain't gonna let us on their campus.

895
00:50:14,699 --> 00:50:17,759
No, what I'm saying is you have to take
things one step at a time.

896
00:50:17,836 --> 00:50:19,303
This is a great opportunity.

897
00:50:19,371 --> 00:50:20,303
Thank you very much.

898
00:50:20,372 --> 00:50:23,864
Master is going to give us
a crumb off his plate, huh?

899
00:50:27,045 --> 00:50:28,910
What? Wha...

900
00:50:28,981 --> 00:50:31,677
I think Lowe here is afraid.

901
00:50:31,751 --> 00:50:34,219
What am I afraid of, James?

902
00:50:34,287 --> 00:50:36,255
I think you're afraid
to debate white people.

903
00:50:36,322 --> 00:50:37,687
- Anglo-Saxons.
- Anglo-Saxons.

904
00:50:37,790 --> 00:50:38,518
Thank you very much.

905
00:50:38,624 --> 00:50:40,148
Mr. Tolson, let me debate.

906
00:50:40,259 --> 00:50:44,889
I mean, I'll debate
Anglo-Saxons anywhere:

907
00:50:44,997 --> 00:50:46,794
In a dark alley, with no light,

908
00:50:46,866 --> 00:50:49,130
with a candle lit and people
chasing you down with guns.

909
00:50:49,202 --> 00:50:51,500
Hell, I'll debate Anglo-Saxons anywhere.

910
00:50:51,571 --> 00:50:52,833
I ain't afraid.

911
00:50:52,905 --> 00:50:54,463
I am.

912
00:50:58,044 --> 00:51:00,274
Mr. Tolson, when I came here today,

913
00:51:00,346 --> 00:51:03,509
I saw the sheriff outside watching your house.

914
00:51:03,550 --> 00:51:05,643
What's going on?

915
00:51:09,991 --> 00:51:11,982
Maybe you should ask the sheriff.

916
00:51:12,093 --> 00:51:14,823
I've been hearing a lot of rumors
about what you're doing.

917
00:51:14,929 --> 00:51:16,829
My dad just called the Dean last week

918
00:51:16,898 --> 00:51:18,456
and asked, "What is
a communist doing

919
00:51:18,566 --> 00:51:19,931
teaching at a good Methodist college?"

920
00:51:20,001 --> 00:51:22,094
My politics are my business,
Mr. Burgess,

921
00:51:22,170 --> 00:51:24,900
and I promise you that they
will not endanger the team.

922
00:51:24,973 --> 00:51:26,600
But, sir, it is being endangered.

923
00:51:26,674 --> 00:51:29,006
I came to Wiley College
to be educated, not investigated.

924
00:51:29,077 --> 00:51:30,203
I understand that.

925
00:51:30,278 --> 00:51:32,178
I don't want to be dragged into anything.

926
00:51:32,248 --> 00:51:34,375
- You're not...
- If my parents find...

927
00:51:34,450 --> 00:51:36,247
I'm sorry.

928
00:51:37,386 --> 00:51:39,820
Mr. Tolson, please.

929
00:51:39,889 --> 00:51:41,982
Just tell me you're not
a communist. Otherwise...

930
00:51:42,057 --> 00:51:43,752
Otherwise what?

931
00:51:47,096 --> 00:51:48,654
Otherwise what?

932
00:51:48,765 --> 00:51:50,596
My father says I have to quit.

933
00:51:50,667 --> 00:51:51,998
Nobody wants that.

934
00:51:52,068 --> 00:51:53,399
Then tell me.

935
00:51:55,072 --> 00:52:00,772
As I said, my politics are my business.

936
00:52:02,513 --> 00:52:04,344
I guess I have to resign.

937
00:52:14,191 --> 00:52:18,992
Mrs. Tolson, thank you
for a wonderful dinner.

938
00:52:19,096 --> 00:52:21,291
You're welcome, Ham.

939
00:52:23,234 --> 00:52:24,826
Good luck in Oklahoma, y'all.

940
00:52:27,806 --> 00:52:29,501
I know you'll win.

941
00:52:44,423 --> 00:52:46,152
All right. Well,

942
00:52:46,225 --> 00:52:49,092
if anybody else wants to quit, I'll understand.

943
00:53:35,076 --> 00:53:36,202
Resolved:

944
00:53:36,277 --> 00:53:39,804
Negroes should be...

945
00:53:39,882 --> 00:53:42,476
should be admitted...

946
00:53:42,551 --> 00:53:44,018
I can't hear you!

947
00:53:44,086 --> 00:53:45,747
Speak up!

948
00:53:45,821 --> 00:53:47,914
Resolved...

949
00:53:49,292 --> 00:53:56,596
Negroes should be admitted
to state universities.

950
00:53:56,667 --> 00:53:59,864
My partner and I will prove

951
00:53:59,970 --> 00:54:04,339
that blocking a Negro's admission
to a state university

952
00:54:04,408 --> 00:54:09,107
is not only wrong, it is absurd.

953
00:54:09,179 --> 00:54:15,846
The Negro people are not just a color
in the American fabric.

954
00:54:15,919 --> 00:54:18,888
They are the thread
that holds it all together.

955
00:54:18,955 --> 00:54:22,721
Consider the legal
and historical record.

956
00:54:22,793 --> 00:54:24,761
May 13, 1865:

957
00:54:24,829 --> 00:54:26,456
Sergeant Crocker, a Negro,

958
00:54:26,532 --> 00:54:30,298
is the last soldier to die in the Civil War.

959
00:54:30,369 --> 00:54:32,530
The first U.S. Soldiers

960
00:54:32,639 --> 00:54:34,504
decorated for bravery in France

961
00:54:34,574 --> 00:54:38,066
are Negroes Henry Johnson
and Needham Roberts.

962
00:54:38,178 --> 00:54:41,614
The New York Times announces

963
00:54:41,681 --> 00:54:45,811
that the "N" in Negro would hereafter
be capitalized.

964
00:54:45,885 --> 00:54:49,912
To force upon the South
what they are not ready for

965
00:54:49,989 --> 00:54:52,321
would result in nothing
but more racial hatred.

966
00:54:52,392 --> 00:54:53,381
What?

967
00:54:53,460 --> 00:54:55,485
Dr. W.E.B. DuBois...

968
00:54:55,562 --> 00:54:58,759
he's perhaps the most eminent
Negro scholar in America.

969
00:54:58,832 --> 00:55:00,697
He comments...

970
00:55:00,834 --> 00:55:04,827
"It's a silly waste
of money, time, and temper

971
00:55:04,871 --> 00:55:06,498
"to try and compel a powerful majority

972
00:55:06,574 --> 00:55:10,533
to do what they are
determined not to do."

973
00:55:10,644 --> 00:55:14,011
My opponent so conveniently chose
to ignore the fact

974
00:55:14,081 --> 00:55:17,744
that W.E.B. DuBois is the first Negro

975
00:55:17,818 --> 00:55:21,481
to receive a Ph. D
from a white college called Harvard.

976
00:55:21,555 --> 00:55:23,113
Dr. DuBois, he adds,

977
00:55:23,190 --> 00:55:27,559
"It is impossible...
impossible for a Negro

978
00:55:27,629 --> 00:55:30,462
to receive a proper education
at a white college."

979
00:55:30,532 --> 00:55:33,558
The most eminent
Negro scholar in America

980
00:55:33,635 --> 00:55:35,967
is the product of
an Ivy League education.

981
00:55:36,037 --> 00:55:39,302
You see, DuBois knows all too well
the white man's resistance to change.

982
00:55:39,407 --> 00:55:43,207
But that's no reason to keep
a black man out of any college.

983
00:55:43,278 --> 00:55:46,475
If someone didn't force upon the South
something it wasn't ready for,

984
00:55:46,549 --> 00:55:47,743
I'd still be in chains,

985
00:55:47,817 --> 00:55:50,251
and Miss Booke here would be
running from her old Master!

986
00:55:52,089 --> 00:55:54,717
I do admit it.

987
00:55:54,792 --> 00:55:56,692
It is true.

988
00:55:56,760 --> 00:56:00,890
Far too many whites are afflicted
with the disease of racial hatred.

989
00:56:01,031 --> 00:56:03,158
And because of racism,

990
00:56:03,233 --> 00:56:05,793
it would be impossible
for a Negro to be happy

991
00:56:05,836 --> 00:56:07,201
at a southern white college today.

992
00:56:07,237 --> 00:56:08,329
That's true.

993
00:56:08,405 --> 00:56:09,770
And if someone is unhappy,

994
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:13,936
it is impossible to see how they could
receive a proper education.

995
00:56:14,044 --> 00:56:15,511
That's right.

996
00:56:15,579 --> 00:56:17,137
Yes, a time will come

997
00:56:17,248 --> 00:56:20,115
when Negroes and whites
will walk on the same campus

998
00:56:20,185 --> 00:56:22,847
and we will share
the same classrooms.

999
00:56:24,389 --> 00:56:27,620
But sadly, that day is not today.

1000
00:56:27,693 --> 00:56:31,185
As long as schools
are segregated,

1001
00:56:31,263 --> 00:56:37,065
Negroes will receive an education
that is both separate and unequal.

1002
00:56:37,136 --> 00:56:39,104
By Oklahoma's own reckoning,

1003
00:56:39,171 --> 00:56:42,902
the state is currently
spending five times more

1004
00:56:42,975 --> 00:56:44,943
for the education of a white child

1005
00:56:45,044 --> 00:56:47,376
than it is spending
to educate a colored child.

1006
00:56:47,479 --> 00:56:51,074
That means better textbooks
for that child than for that child.

1007
00:56:51,183 --> 00:56:52,741
Oh, I say that's a shame,

1008
00:56:52,852 --> 00:56:55,946
but my opponent says
today is not the day

1009
00:56:56,021 --> 00:56:59,821
for whites and coloreds
to go to the same college,

1010
00:56:59,892 --> 00:57:02,156
to share the same campus,

1011
00:57:02,294 --> 00:57:04,285
to walk in the same classroom.

1012
00:57:04,330 --> 00:57:07,959
Well, would you kindly tell me
when is that day gonna come?

1013
00:57:08,001 --> 00:57:10,265
Is it gonna come tomorrow?
Is it gonna come next week?

1014
00:57:10,338 --> 00:57:11,635
In a hundred years?

1015
00:57:11,706 --> 00:57:12,764
Never?

1016
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:14,831
No, the time for justice,

1017
00:57:14,909 --> 00:57:17,878
the time for freedom,
and the time for equality

1018
00:57:17,946 --> 00:57:21,712
is always, is always, right now!

1019
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:39,189
Thank you.

1020
00:57:51,314 --> 00:57:52,747
What is this?

1021
00:57:52,849 --> 00:57:54,316
I told you it was holy wine.

1022
00:57:54,417 --> 00:57:55,577
Put hair on your chest.

1023
00:57:55,685 --> 00:57:57,118
If you say so.

1024
00:57:57,186 --> 00:57:58,118
Good, ain't it?

1025
00:57:58,187 --> 00:57:59,279
Uh-huh.

1026
00:57:59,389 --> 00:58:01,516
You know where the bathroom
is if you need it.

1027
00:58:01,658 --> 00:58:02,886
Yeah.

1028
00:58:08,198 --> 00:58:10,564
And my weapons were words.

1029
00:58:10,634 --> 00:58:12,966
I didn't need a gun. I didn't need a knife.

1030
00:58:13,037 --> 00:58:14,026
You see...

1031
00:58:15,506 --> 00:58:17,633
Meet me outside in five minutes.

1032
00:58:17,708 --> 00:58:19,767
And then what?

1033
00:58:31,556 --> 00:58:32,921
Yes, I did, honey,

1034
00:58:32,991 --> 00:58:35,357
and nobody knows that
better than you know.

1035
00:58:35,427 --> 00:58:36,553
Oh, I'm fine.

1036
00:58:36,628 --> 00:58:38,061
How are you doing, Pearl?

1037
00:58:38,129 --> 00:58:39,153
Pearl!

1038
00:58:39,230 --> 00:58:41,095
Yes, I do. Where's your husband?

1039
00:58:41,166 --> 00:58:42,997
- He's in the study.
- Okay.

1040
00:58:56,583 --> 00:58:58,483
Dr. Farmer.

1041
00:58:58,585 --> 00:58:59,882
Congratulations, Melvin.

1042
00:58:59,987 --> 00:59:00,885
Thank you.

1043
00:59:01,021 --> 00:59:02,352
You've put us on the map.

1044
00:59:02,422 --> 00:59:04,049
Well, your son is doing a great job.

1045
00:59:04,092 --> 00:59:05,491
His research is impeccable.

1046
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,188
That's good to hear.
That's good to hear.

1047
00:59:08,262 --> 00:59:11,129
Listen, there are people around town

1048
00:59:11,199 --> 00:59:14,100
who aren't very happy
with your off-campus activities.

1049
00:59:15,570 --> 00:59:17,333
They're calling you a radical.

1050
00:59:17,405 --> 00:59:19,464
In fact, I wouldn't be a bit surprised

1051
00:59:19,540 --> 00:59:21,701
to find out one morning
when I woke up

1052
00:59:21,776 --> 00:59:23,641
that you were strung up to a tree.

1053
00:59:23,711 --> 00:59:25,076
They'd have to catch me first.

1054
00:59:25,146 --> 00:59:26,670
This is serious, Melvin.

1055
00:59:26,748 --> 00:59:28,409
Very serious.

1056
00:59:28,483 --> 00:59:31,043
A hungry Negro steals
a chicken, he goes to jail.

1057
00:59:31,119 --> 00:59:33,952
A rich businessman steals
bonds, he goes to Congress.

1058
00:59:34,055 --> 00:59:35,249
I think that's wrong.

1059
00:59:35,356 --> 00:59:38,553
Now, if that makes me a radical,
a socialist, a communist, so be it.

1060
00:59:38,626 --> 00:59:39,684
Amen... Amen on that.

1061
00:59:39,794 --> 00:59:41,318
- Jesus was a radical.
- Careful.

1062
00:59:41,429 --> 00:59:43,294
Yes, He was. Jesus was a radical.

1063
00:59:43,365 --> 00:59:44,889
Mental institutions are filled with people

1064
00:59:44,967 --> 00:59:46,559
who have confused themselves
with Jesus Christ.

1065
00:59:46,635 --> 00:59:47,693
I'm not confused.

1066
00:59:47,771 --> 00:59:49,238
You're convinced you're Jesus Christ now?

1067
00:59:49,305 --> 00:59:50,738
- No.
- You're convinced you're Jesus Christ?

1068
00:59:50,807 --> 00:59:52,138
You know what words do.

1069
00:59:52,208 --> 00:59:53,368
- Okay.
- Come on now.

1070
00:59:53,443 --> 00:59:54,671
Amen.

1071
00:59:54,744 --> 00:59:56,041
Don't want to confuse
yourself with Jesus Christ.

1072
00:59:56,112 --> 00:59:57,943
I'm not confused. I'm convinced.

1073
00:59:58,014 --> 01:00:00,642
I'm not, uh, I'm not judging you.

1074
01:00:01,851 --> 01:00:06,489
I'm just concerned
about your methods.

1075
01:00:06,489 --> 01:00:08,457
What methods?

1076
01:00:08,525 --> 01:00:11,585
James was there that night, wasn't he?

1077
01:00:11,695 --> 01:00:14,323
He was not with me.

1078
01:00:14,398 --> 01:00:15,626
Is he involved in this?

1079
01:00:15,699 --> 01:00:16,961
Of course not, James.

1080
01:00:17,034 --> 01:00:19,798
I've done everything in my power
to keep him out of this.

1081
01:00:19,870 --> 01:00:20,928
- To keep him out?
- Yes.

1082
01:00:21,005 --> 01:00:22,768
Are you telling me
he wants to be involved?

1083
01:00:22,841 --> 01:00:24,468
Maybe this is something
you should discuss with him.

1084
01:00:24,543 --> 01:00:25,942
I'm discussing it with you right now,

1085
01:00:26,011 --> 01:00:28,070
and I don't feel like I'm getting
a straight answer.

1086
01:00:28,146 --> 01:00:29,306
You're getting a straight answer.

1087
01:00:29,381 --> 01:00:31,849
I think that you were
there with him that night.

1088
01:00:31,917 --> 01:00:32,849
He was not with me.

1089
01:00:32,918 --> 01:00:34,010
He's a 14-year-old boy.

1090
01:00:34,086 --> 01:00:35,075
I understand that.

1091
01:00:35,153 --> 01:00:37,713
I'll do whatever I have to do
to protect him.

1092
01:00:37,789 --> 01:00:38,949
Is anybody thirsty?

1093
01:00:39,057 --> 01:00:40,547
Here you are.

1094
01:00:40,660 --> 01:00:42,594
Thank you. Thank you, Ruth.

1095
01:00:42,662 --> 01:00:44,061
- You're welcome.
- Mm-hmm.

1096
01:00:44,130 --> 01:00:45,597
Okay.

1097
01:00:45,698 --> 01:00:48,064
Ruth, this is a fine party.

1098
01:00:48,134 --> 01:00:49,533
- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.

1099
01:00:49,602 --> 01:00:51,570
I think it's time
for some sweet potato pie.

1100
01:00:51,637 --> 01:00:52,569
Please.

1101
01:00:52,638 --> 01:00:53,969
I'll help you with that.

1102
01:01:01,013 --> 01:01:03,641
Not the time to talk about it.

1103
01:01:03,717 --> 01:01:04,479
Congratulations.

1104
01:01:04,518 --> 01:01:05,883
Thank you.

1105
01:01:29,685 --> 01:01:32,347
It's so beautiful out here.

1106
01:01:32,421 --> 01:01:34,184
Mm-hmm.

1107
01:01:34,257 --> 01:01:35,417
Yeah.

1108
01:01:35,491 --> 01:01:39,222
I was born near here,
a little further up the lake near Jefferson.

1109
01:01:39,296 --> 01:01:42,788
I've been coming here
since I was a little boy.

1110
01:01:42,867 --> 01:01:45,392
Your parents still live around here?

1111
01:01:45,470 --> 01:01:48,598
No, no. They're, uh, they're gone.

1112
01:01:48,707 --> 01:01:50,698
My grandparents raised me.

1113
01:01:50,809 --> 01:01:52,777
And my Pah-Pah, he, uh,

1114
01:01:52,877 --> 01:01:55,175
spent his life doing
the levees around here...

1115
01:01:55,246 --> 01:01:56,508
for free, of course.

1116
01:01:56,581 --> 01:01:58,811
- Mm. He was a slave?
- Mm-hmm.

1117
01:01:58,883 --> 01:02:01,317
My grandma was always
telling me to be good

1118
01:02:01,453 --> 01:02:04,889
or else the Confederates would rise up
out of Marshall Cemetery and get me.

1119
01:02:07,425 --> 01:02:08,790
Boy.

1120
01:02:13,064 --> 01:02:14,224
What?

1121
01:02:14,299 --> 01:02:17,564
I've just never seen
this side of you before.

1122
01:02:17,635 --> 01:02:19,728
What side?

1123
01:02:19,838 --> 01:02:22,272
You seem so calm,

1124
01:02:22,341 --> 01:02:23,774
so peaceful.

1125
01:02:23,843 --> 01:02:27,142
It's what the lake does to me.

1126
01:02:27,214 --> 01:02:29,682
I'm happy when I'm out here,
you know?

1127
01:02:31,618 --> 01:02:33,279
It's funny.

1128
01:02:47,067 --> 01:02:51,766
Part of me wants to just stay out here
by the lake, you know?

1129
01:02:51,838 --> 01:02:56,935
Read books all day and hunt
and fish when I get hungry.

1130
01:02:57,043 --> 01:02:59,341
And the other part
wants to go everywhere,

1131
01:02:59,413 --> 01:03:00,675
you know, see everything.

1132
01:03:00,814 --> 01:03:07,549
I want to go to New Orleans and New York
and Chicago and even San Francisco.

1133
01:03:08,524 --> 01:03:11,049
I just want to go...

1134
01:03:11,126 --> 01:03:15,256
walking down the road and...

1135
01:03:15,330 --> 01:03:16,695
just disappear.

1136
01:03:20,236 --> 01:03:23,205
Well, maybe you could
take me with you.

1137
01:04:42,055 --> 01:04:44,353


1138
01:05:09,785 --> 01:05:10,911
- Lord.
- What?

1139
01:05:11,020 --> 01:05:12,578
It's the school band,
and they're outside.

1140
01:05:12,688 --> 01:05:14,349
What? Jesus!

1141
01:05:14,423 --> 01:05:16,357
I thought you said nobody
ever comes around here.

1142
01:05:16,425 --> 01:05:17,687
Nobody ever does
come here, Samantha.

1143
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:19,159
Hold on! Hold on!

1144
01:05:19,228 --> 01:05:20,855
Henry, come on!

1145
01:05:22,031 --> 01:05:23,396
Henry.

1146
01:05:23,465 --> 01:05:24,625
Get dressed.

1147
01:05:24,700 --> 01:05:26,258
What's going on?

1148
01:05:26,335 --> 01:05:28,530
We're gonna go get
Mr. Tolson and Samantha,

1149
01:05:28,604 --> 01:05:31,266
head back to the campus,
and have a pep rally.

1150
01:05:31,340 --> 01:05:32,671
Come on, get dressed.

1151
01:05:32,741 --> 01:05:34,333
You know what?
You go get Tolson,

1152
01:05:34,410 --> 01:05:36,503
and I'll meet up with y'all later on campus.

1153
01:05:36,579 --> 01:05:37,773
Come on, Lowe.

1154
01:05:37,846 --> 01:05:40,110
You know it's going to be fun.

1155
01:05:51,795 --> 01:05:54,229
I guess I'll tell them
you're going to join us later?

1156
01:06:07,245 --> 01:06:08,974
He's going to join us later.

1157
01:06:09,047 --> 01:06:11,777
He just has to clean
his house, that's all.

1158
01:06:30,136 --> 01:06:33,970
Great news. Great news.
Great news!

1159
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:36,907
My phone has been ringing off the hook.

1160
01:06:36,976 --> 01:06:39,171
University of Michigan
wants to debate us.

1161
01:06:39,245 --> 01:06:41,270
So does SMU. So does Georgia.

1162
01:06:41,347 --> 01:06:42,439
Where's Mr. Lowe?

1163
01:06:42,515 --> 01:06:44,483
When do I get to debate?

1164
01:06:44,550 --> 01:06:45,915
Sooner than you think, James.

1165
01:06:46,019 --> 01:06:47,077
Sooner than you think.

1166
01:06:47,186 --> 01:06:48,312
When?

1167
01:06:48,422 --> 01:06:49,753
When you're ready.

1168
01:06:49,823 --> 01:06:50,983
I'm ready now.

1169
01:06:51,091 --> 01:06:54,254
Mr. Tolson, I do not mind if James...

1170
01:06:56,230 --> 01:06:57,356
What's wrong?

1171
01:06:57,431 --> 01:06:59,865
Maybe I'm tired of this.

1172
01:06:59,934 --> 01:07:01,265
Of what?

1173
01:07:01,403 --> 01:07:03,337
Of watching other people debate.

1174
01:07:03,405 --> 01:07:05,600
When am I going to get
a chance to prove myself?

1175
01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:07,608
You're our best researcher, James.

1176
01:07:07,642 --> 01:07:09,234
We could not do this without you.

1177
01:07:09,310 --> 01:07:11,608
You do plenty without me.

1178
01:07:16,451 --> 01:07:17,782
Excuse me.

1179
01:07:21,056 --> 01:07:22,216
- James!
- What?

1180
01:07:22,323 --> 01:07:25,156
James, you wait!

1181
01:07:25,227 --> 01:07:28,060
That was so mean
what you said in there.

1182
01:07:29,799 --> 01:07:31,892
All right, uh, look,

1183
01:07:31,967 --> 01:07:33,662
I don't want to lose your friendship.

1184
01:07:33,736 --> 01:07:36,796
How can you lose something
that you never had?

1185
01:07:36,872 --> 01:07:38,897
You were never my friend?

1186
01:07:38,975 --> 01:07:41,375
Maybe I don't want
to just be your friend.

1187
01:07:41,446 --> 01:07:43,914
Maybe it hurts me
to be your friend.

1188
01:07:55,359 --> 01:07:56,724
- What's going on?
- What's going on?

1189
01:07:59,864 --> 01:08:01,263
Grab his hands.

1190
01:08:05,069 --> 01:08:07,196
Mr. Tolson!

1191
01:08:12,210 --> 01:08:13,234
Where is he?

1192
01:08:13,311 --> 01:08:14,471
Calm down, Henry.

1193
01:08:14,545 --> 01:08:15,477
Have you seen him?

1194
01:08:15,546 --> 01:08:16,706
No, they won't let us.

1195
01:08:16,781 --> 01:08:18,146
They didn't do nothing to you, did they?

1196
01:08:18,217 --> 01:08:20,208
- No, we're fine.
- Deputy,

1197
01:08:20,285 --> 01:08:21,843
I'm Dr. James Farmer
of Wiley College.

1198
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:23,820
This is William Taylor,
Mr. Tolson's attorney.

1199
01:08:23,889 --> 01:08:25,356
And this is his wife Ruth.

1200
01:08:25,424 --> 01:08:26,448
Hello.

1201
01:08:26,558 --> 01:08:28,082
I'd like to see my client, please.

1202
01:08:28,193 --> 01:08:29,160
William!

1203
01:08:29,228 --> 01:08:30,718
Sheriff Dozier. Dr. James Farmer...

1204
01:08:30,829 --> 01:08:32,626
Hello, William. How you doing today?

1205
01:08:32,698 --> 01:08:34,256
Fine, sir, thank you. And you?

1206
01:08:34,367 --> 01:08:35,959
Oh, not too bad, not too bad.

1207
01:08:36,035 --> 01:08:37,559
Me and William, we go way back.

1208
01:08:37,637 --> 01:08:39,628
I knew William when I was a boy.

1209
01:08:39,706 --> 01:08:42,573
Could I see my client now, Sheriff?

1210
01:08:42,642 --> 01:08:43,836
Your client?

1211
01:08:43,910 --> 01:08:46,310
Well, the fact of the business
is, William,

1212
01:08:46,379 --> 01:08:48,279
your client is kind of busy right now.

1213
01:08:48,348 --> 01:08:49,610
Busy doing what?

1214
01:08:49,683 --> 01:08:52,311
Sheriff. Sheriff.

1215
01:08:53,320 --> 01:08:54,446
We have a situation.

1216
01:08:55,656 --> 01:08:57,089
Get some of your boys out there.

1217
01:08:57,159 --> 01:08:58,183
All right, men.

1218
01:08:58,260 --> 01:09:01,229
Let him go! Let him go!

1219
01:09:01,396 --> 01:09:03,694
Let him go! Let him go!

1220
01:09:03,765 --> 01:09:06,393
Let him go! Let him go!

1221
01:09:06,434 --> 01:09:09,062
Let him go! Let him go!

1222
01:09:09,137 --> 01:09:10,798
Let him go! Let him go!

1223
01:09:10,872 --> 01:09:13,136
Let him go! Let him go!

1224
01:09:13,208 --> 01:09:15,039
Let him go! Let him go!

1225
01:09:15,110 --> 01:09:16,737
Let him go! Let him go!

1226
01:09:16,812 --> 01:09:18,109
They with you?

1227
01:09:18,180 --> 01:09:19,670
That's right.

1228
01:09:19,748 --> 01:09:23,775
See? This is what happens to a town
when you let the unions in.

1229
01:09:23,852 --> 01:09:25,080
Starts trouble.

1230
01:09:25,153 --> 01:09:27,417
People get all riled up about nothing.

1231
01:09:27,490 --> 01:09:31,324
One of them's liable to get hurt,
if you catch my drift.

1232
01:09:31,394 --> 01:09:33,362
Sheriff, since it's clear

1233
01:09:33,462 --> 01:09:36,625
that you have no evidence
to arrest Mr. Tolson,

1234
01:09:36,733 --> 01:09:38,633
I suggest you let him go.

1235
01:09:38,702 --> 01:09:39,964
You suggest it?

1236
01:09:40,037 --> 01:09:41,334
Who the hell are you?

1237
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:44,339
Couple of months ago,

1238
01:09:44,408 --> 01:09:47,536
there was a raid
on Floyd Tillman's barn.

1239
01:09:47,611 --> 01:09:51,308
It was a peaceful and lawful
gathering of sharecroppers

1240
01:09:51,381 --> 01:09:56,284
who were brutally attacked
by a gang of violent vigilantes.

1241
01:09:56,353 --> 01:10:00,187
Now, witnesses say
that you were there.

1242
01:10:00,257 --> 01:10:03,818
If you led that raid, Sheriff,

1243
01:10:03,961 --> 01:10:07,124
you're the one who broke
the law, not Tolson.

1244
01:10:08,498 --> 01:10:10,591
Are you threatening me, boy?

1245
01:10:10,701 --> 01:10:12,032
No, sir.

1246
01:10:12,102 --> 01:10:14,070
I wouldn't do that.

1247
01:10:14,171 --> 01:10:17,197
But I cannot speak
for those people outside.

1248
01:10:18,277 --> 01:10:22,270
An unjust law is no law at all.

1249
01:10:22,349 --> 01:10:24,544
What does that mean?

1250
01:10:24,618 --> 01:10:26,643
A mass slaughter

1251
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:30,315
of citizens, both white and colored,

1252
01:10:30,390 --> 01:10:32,119
by Texas Rangers?

1253
01:10:32,192 --> 01:10:35,855
Is that really what you want
as the Sheriff of this county?

1254
01:10:38,431 --> 01:10:41,298
Now, if you let Tolson go home,

1255
01:10:41,401 --> 01:10:43,232
I believe...

1256
01:10:43,303 --> 01:10:48,707
I believe that these folks outside,
they'll go home as well.

1257
01:11:14,836 --> 01:11:17,066
That pig wasn't worth $25.

1258
01:11:17,172 --> 01:11:18,139
What?

1259
01:11:18,206 --> 01:11:20,367
You owe my father some money.

1260
01:12:19,672 --> 01:12:21,139
Have a seat, Mr. Farmer.

1261
01:12:22,742 --> 01:12:24,733
Oh, Lord.

1262
01:12:26,045 --> 01:12:27,239
Um...

1263
01:12:29,815 --> 01:12:32,283
SMU has cancelled.

1264
01:12:32,351 --> 01:12:36,219
University of Georgia sounds
like they will follow suit.

1265
01:12:36,288 --> 01:12:37,687
Why?

1266
01:12:39,191 --> 01:12:41,887
I've been blacklisted.

1267
01:12:41,961 --> 01:12:43,952
They're talking about censuring me.

1268
01:12:44,030 --> 01:12:46,362
Dean Clay and the board
have asked me

1269
01:12:46,432 --> 01:12:49,890
to stop working with
the sharecroppers, or else.

1270
01:12:49,969 --> 01:12:52,529
They say that it is not my fight.

1271
01:12:52,605 --> 01:12:56,097
So... things are bad.

1272
01:12:56,209 --> 01:12:58,177
My academic career's in jeopardy.

1273
01:12:58,279 --> 01:13:00,645
My debate team has nowhere to go.

1274
01:13:02,750 --> 01:13:04,980
Anyone know who Antaeus was?

1275
01:13:05,053 --> 01:13:09,547
Sure. He was a gigantic
wrestler in Greek mythology.

1276
01:13:09,625 --> 01:13:13,959
His mother was, uh, Gaea,
the goddess of Earth,

1277
01:13:14,029 --> 01:13:15,963
and, uh, I mean, he was unbeatable

1278
01:13:16,031 --> 01:13:17,931
because anytime someone
threw him down to the Earth,

1279
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:18,989
it would make him stronger.

1280
01:13:19,068 --> 01:13:20,262
That's correct.

1281
01:13:20,335 --> 01:13:21,734
It would make him stronger.

1282
01:13:21,804 --> 01:13:25,535
Defeat would make him stronger.

1283
01:13:25,607 --> 01:13:27,700
You are my students.
I am your teacher.

1284
01:13:27,810 --> 01:13:30,506
I think that's a sacred trust.

1285
01:13:30,612 --> 01:13:32,637
So what do I say to you now?

1286
01:13:32,748 --> 01:13:34,739
Quit because the Dean says so?

1287
01:13:34,851 --> 01:13:36,751
Because the sheriff says so?

1288
01:13:36,820 --> 01:13:38,845
Because the Texas Rangers say so?

1289
01:13:38,922 --> 01:13:40,219
No.

1290
01:13:40,290 --> 01:13:42,258
I am diametrically opposed to that.

1291
01:13:42,325 --> 01:13:44,691
My message to you is to never quit.

1292
01:13:44,761 --> 01:13:46,422
We are not quitting.

1293
01:13:46,496 --> 01:13:47,520
Good.

1294
01:13:47,597 --> 01:13:49,121
What do you want us to do?

1295
01:13:49,199 --> 01:13:50,188
Debate Harvard.

1296
01:13:50,267 --> 01:13:51,734
- Harvard?
- Harvard University.

1297
01:13:51,802 --> 01:13:54,066
They're the reigning
national champions.

1298
01:13:54,138 --> 01:13:57,039
If we defeat them, we defeat the best.

1299
01:13:57,108 --> 01:13:59,042
Mr. Tolson, sir, with all due respect,

1300
01:13:59,143 --> 01:14:00,872
um, Harvard ain't going to debate us,

1301
01:14:01,045 --> 01:14:02,512
not little old Wiley College
in Marshall, Texas.

1302
01:14:02,580 --> 01:14:04,013
They know who we are, Henry.

1303
01:14:04,081 --> 01:14:06,242
I've been writing them letters,
sending them articles.

1304
01:14:06,283 --> 01:14:08,148
But how do we get a letter back?

1305
01:14:08,219 --> 01:14:09,186
By continuing to win.

1306
01:14:09,253 --> 01:14:10,379
Dr. Farmer has informed me

1307
01:14:10,454 --> 01:14:13,617
that Howard University is going to be
at Prairie View next week.

1308
01:14:13,691 --> 01:14:15,215
We annihilated Fisk.

1309
01:14:15,293 --> 01:14:17,921
If we eliminate Howard,
we will have beaten

1310
01:14:17,996 --> 01:14:19,930
the two best Negro colleges in America,

1311
01:14:19,998 --> 01:14:22,330
and I can guarantee you
that I will see to it

1312
01:14:22,400 --> 01:14:23,924
that Harvard does not ignore that.

1313
01:14:24,002 --> 01:14:25,367
All right?

1314
01:14:25,437 --> 01:14:26,426
Yeah.

1315
01:14:26,505 --> 01:14:28,268
# You guys, scoodle um skoo #

1316
01:14:28,540 --> 01:14:30,735
# Oh, baby, let's scoodle um skoo #

1317
01:14:30,809 --> 01:14:32,674
# Come on, Mama,
and scoodle um skoo #

1318
01:14:32,744 --> 01:14:35,542
# Scoodle um scoodle um,
and scoodle um skoo #

1319
01:14:35,647 --> 01:14:37,080
Just look for it on there.

1320
01:14:37,150 --> 01:14:38,208
You see it on there?

1321
01:14:38,317 --> 01:14:39,579
I've been looking the whole time.

1322
01:14:39,652 --> 01:14:40,949
Prairie View, Texas. The 127.

1323
01:14:41,020 --> 01:14:43,147
You show me where to look
because it's not on...

1324
01:14:43,223 --> 01:14:44,656
127 near Waxahachie.

1325
01:14:44,725 --> 01:14:45,953
It's not there.

1326
01:14:46,026 --> 01:14:48,051
It's there. You just can't find it.

1327
01:14:48,128 --> 01:14:49,891
I see 2, and I see 7.

1328
01:14:49,963 --> 01:14:52,727
Right. Now look for a 1 in front of it,
and you got it.

1329
01:14:54,302 --> 01:14:55,234
- After 126...
- Okay.

1330
01:14:55,303 --> 01:14:57,897
Before 128.

1331
01:14:57,972 --> 01:14:59,803
I really don't think...

1332
01:14:59,874 --> 01:15:00,806
You don't see it.

1333
01:15:00,942 --> 01:15:02,307
When did you get this map?

1334
01:15:44,287 --> 01:15:45,276
What are you doing?

1335
01:15:45,388 --> 01:15:46,946
I'm gonna cut him down.

1336
01:15:48,692 --> 01:15:50,853
Get back in the car. Shut the door.

1337
01:15:52,295 --> 01:15:53,887
Nobody move.

1338
01:15:55,599 --> 01:15:56,623
Just get down.

1339
01:15:56,700 --> 01:15:58,998
Get down, get down.

1340
01:16:02,505 --> 01:16:04,632
Get down, too. You get down, too.

1341
01:16:19,791 --> 01:16:21,588
There's niggers in that car!

1342
01:16:21,660 --> 01:16:22,854
Come on, come on!

1343
01:16:36,409 --> 01:16:37,467
Get out of the car!

1344
01:16:37,543 --> 01:16:38,737
Get out of that car!

1345
01:16:38,811 --> 01:16:40,142
Stop that car right now!

1346
01:17:10,944 --> 01:17:12,969
All right. Everybody sit tight,

1347
01:17:13,047 --> 01:17:16,141
and, uh...

1348
01:17:16,216 --> 01:17:17,683
I'll get the keys.

1349
01:17:27,629 --> 01:17:29,119
How you doing, Miss Becker?

1350
01:17:29,231 --> 01:17:30,357
I'm fine. You all right?

1351
01:17:30,433 --> 01:17:31,365
Yes, ma'am.

1352
01:17:31,434 --> 01:17:32,560
I got your rooms all ready.

1353
01:17:32,636 --> 01:17:33,728
Thank you.

1354
01:17:38,909 --> 01:17:40,274
Henry.

1355
01:17:44,915 --> 01:17:46,405
Henry!

1356
01:17:47,684 --> 01:17:49,049
Henry!

1357
01:18:09,005 --> 01:18:10,597
They ain't going to wake up.

1358
01:18:13,345 --> 01:18:14,369
Come on.

1359
01:18:14,446 --> 01:18:15,378
Ha!

1360
01:18:36,869 --> 01:18:37,995
See you.

1361
01:18:39,037 --> 01:18:41,164
All right. Be good, all right?

1362
01:18:50,315 --> 01:18:51,748
Hey, baby. How you doing?

1363
01:18:53,653 --> 01:18:56,679
Why are you still up?
You waiting on me?

1364
01:19:00,428 --> 01:19:02,828
What's the matter, baby?
Come on!

1365
01:19:02,963 --> 01:19:04,157
Hey!

1366
01:19:05,434 --> 01:19:06,526
Samantha!

1367
01:19:08,703 --> 01:19:10,102
Shut up. Let's go.

1368
01:19:10,172 --> 01:19:11,104
Hey, preacher boy.

1369
01:19:11,173 --> 01:19:12,834
Shut up. Let's go.

1370
01:19:12,908 --> 01:19:13,840
Come on.

1371
01:19:13,909 --> 01:19:14,841
Where are we going?

1372
01:19:14,910 --> 01:19:16,138
Back to our room.

1373
01:19:19,714 --> 01:19:21,272
Got him, Mr. Tolson.

1374
01:19:29,357 --> 01:19:31,757
# They come from Shevelstown #

1375
01:19:31,828 --> 01:19:32,852
Shh!

1376
01:19:32,929 --> 01:19:34,692
# Devil knocked my daddy down #

1377
01:19:34,797 --> 01:19:35,923
- # Run, nigger, run #
- Shh!

1378
01:19:36,032 --> 01:19:37,124
# Master's gonna get you #

1379
01:19:37,233 --> 01:19:38,165
- # Run... #
- Shh!

1380
01:19:38,234 --> 01:19:40,702
Okay. Just sit... sit...

1381
01:19:40,803 --> 01:19:43,397
Not in that bed, though. Get up.

1382
01:19:45,107 --> 01:19:46,335
Come here.

1383
01:19:46,409 --> 01:19:48,070
Give me a hug.

1384
01:19:49,846 --> 01:19:50,778
Stop!

1385
01:19:52,315 --> 01:19:56,308
# Look down yonder, what do I see? #

1386
01:19:56,385 --> 01:19:58,853
# Great big nigger
hangin' from a tree #

1387
01:19:58,922 --> 01:20:00,947
# Run, nigger, run #

1388
01:20:01,091 --> 01:20:02,319
You're worthless.

1389
01:20:02,392 --> 01:20:04,019
What?

1390
01:20:04,094 --> 01:20:06,824
You think you're the only one hurting?

1391
01:20:07,998 --> 01:20:10,933
Um...

1392
01:20:12,170 --> 01:20:16,129
Okay, I'm sorry... for everything.

1393
01:20:16,241 --> 01:20:20,974
For, uh, for drinkin', yeah,

1394
01:20:21,045 --> 01:20:23,240
I apologize.

1395
01:20:23,315 --> 01:20:25,783
I'm not talking about me.

1396
01:20:41,901 --> 01:20:43,801
You're right.

1397
01:20:43,869 --> 01:20:45,996
I'm gonna go talk to her.

1398
01:20:47,172 --> 01:20:48,696
No, no, you won't, Lowe.

1399
01:20:48,807 --> 01:20:50,741
She doesn't need
to see you like this, okay?

1400
01:20:50,811 --> 01:20:52,244
I'm just going to talk to her.

1401
01:20:52,313 --> 01:20:53,575
Leave me alone.

1402
01:20:53,648 --> 01:20:54,637
Lowe!

1403
01:21:00,955 --> 01:21:02,422
Calm down, boy!

1404
01:21:02,490 --> 01:21:04,014
Stop! Stop!

1405
01:21:04,091 --> 01:21:05,149
I'm not playing with you.

1406
01:21:05,226 --> 01:21:07,786
Calm... Calm down!

1407
01:21:07,828 --> 01:21:09,455
You crazy?

1408
01:21:13,568 --> 01:21:15,593
You're never gonna forget what you saw
out there, do you understand?

1409
01:21:15,703 --> 01:21:17,398
You're never gonna forget
what you saw out there.

1410
01:21:17,505 --> 01:21:19,439
Hanging's the easiest
part of it sometimes.

1411
01:21:19,507 --> 01:21:21,236
Sometimes they cut
the little fingers off,

1412
01:21:21,309 --> 01:21:22,799
your toes, your nose, your ears.

1413
01:21:22,910 --> 01:21:24,741
Sometimes they cut
your privates off.

1414
01:21:24,812 --> 01:21:27,178
Sometimes they skin you alive.

1415
01:21:30,686 --> 01:21:33,018
You'll never be able to forget.

1416
01:21:47,971 --> 01:21:49,165
What do you think he did?

1417
01:21:49,273 --> 01:21:51,366
He didn't have to do nothing, James!

1418
01:21:51,475 --> 01:21:52,806
He didn't have to do nothing!

1419
01:21:52,876 --> 01:21:55,344
In Texas they lynch Negroes!

1420
01:21:55,446 --> 01:21:57,676
Do you understand?

1421
01:21:57,748 --> 01:22:00,080
So it doesn't matter
how good we are, does it?

1422
01:22:00,150 --> 01:22:02,015
What are you talk... What?

1423
01:22:02,152 --> 01:22:04,143
This is all useless.

1424
01:22:04,221 --> 01:22:06,155
What are you talking about?

1425
01:22:06,190 --> 01:22:08,920
I mean we're just a bunch of Negroes

1426
01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:10,985
debating each other
on subjects we all agree on.

1427
01:22:11,062 --> 01:22:13,963
Now, James, don't talk like that, all right?

1428
01:22:14,032 --> 01:22:15,829
- Why not?
- Because you can't!

1429
01:22:17,102 --> 01:22:19,161
Not you.

1430
01:23:03,617 --> 01:23:06,211
Bye! God bless you!

1431
01:23:09,956 --> 01:23:11,287
Where's Samantha?

1432
01:23:11,358 --> 01:23:12,848
She's not going with us.

1433
01:23:12,926 --> 01:23:13,893
Why not?

1434
01:23:13,960 --> 01:23:16,428
Why do you think?

1435
01:23:16,497 --> 01:23:18,556
I took her to the bus station.

1436
01:23:18,633 --> 01:23:20,498
She wanted to go back to school.

1437
01:23:22,236 --> 01:23:24,170
You wanted your chance.

1438
01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:27,073
This is it.

1439
01:23:32,115 --> 01:23:34,515
But how can any Negro

1440
01:23:34,584 --> 01:23:37,314
defend the punishment of prison

1441
01:23:37,387 --> 01:23:41,187
when he's seen so much oppression
in his own life?

1442
01:23:41,257 --> 01:23:42,690
Yeah!

1443
01:23:42,759 --> 01:23:44,454
How?

1444
01:23:44,527 --> 01:23:48,964
Because crime itself
is a form of oppression,

1445
01:23:49,032 --> 01:23:52,866
and Negroes fall victim
to more violent crime

1446
01:23:52,936 --> 01:23:55,962
than any other race in America.

1447
01:23:58,775 --> 01:24:00,242
For us,

1448
01:24:00,343 --> 01:24:04,712
prison not only offers protection,
but retribution.

1449
01:24:04,881 --> 01:24:05,905
Yes, indeed!

1450
01:24:05,949 --> 01:24:10,886
And for the criminal, it is a dark gift:

1451
01:24:10,955 --> 01:24:15,085
The hardship that introduces
a man to himself,

1452
01:24:15,159 --> 01:24:18,424
that rouses his passion
for freedom...

1453
01:24:18,496 --> 01:24:19,485
Yes, sir!

1454
01:24:19,563 --> 01:24:21,121
...his hope for redemption!

1455
01:24:21,198 --> 01:24:22,130
Oh, yeah!

1456
01:24:29,241 --> 01:24:32,142
Our next debater from Wiley College,

1457
01:24:32,210 --> 01:24:34,735
Mr. James Farmer, Junior.

1458
01:24:34,846 --> 01:24:36,814
Mr. Farmer?

1459
01:25:40,249 --> 01:25:41,409
Mom?

1460
01:25:47,323 --> 01:25:48,290
Mom!

1461
01:26:20,425 --> 01:26:21,756
Honey.

1462
01:26:21,827 --> 01:26:22,919
Hey.

1463
01:26:22,995 --> 01:26:24,189
Hi.

1464
01:26:24,263 --> 01:26:25,628
Oh!

1465
01:26:25,697 --> 01:26:27,187
Mmm!

1466
01:26:27,266 --> 01:26:29,200
So?

1467
01:26:31,169 --> 01:26:32,193
We lost.

1468
01:26:32,271 --> 01:26:34,967
Oh. I'm sorry.

1469
01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:38,271
Uh, this came.

1470
01:26:40,178 --> 01:26:41,304
Harvard.

1471
01:26:42,347 --> 01:26:43,644
Wonder what it says.

1472
01:26:43,715 --> 01:26:45,580
Go on and open it and read it.

1473
01:26:45,651 --> 01:26:47,778
- Looks like somebody opened it already.
- Not me.

1474
01:26:48,988 --> 01:26:50,512
You didn't open it already?

1475
01:26:50,623 --> 01:26:52,454
No.

1476
01:26:52,525 --> 01:26:54,789
You are not a good liar.

1477
01:26:59,500 --> 01:27:00,990
Out loud.

1478
01:27:04,305 --> 01:27:05,704
"Dear Mr. Tolson,

1479
01:27:05,773 --> 01:27:07,104
"thank you for informing us

1480
01:27:07,141 --> 01:27:10,167
"about your historic victory
over Oklahoma City.

1481
01:27:10,210 --> 01:27:12,644
"I'm sure you realize
our season is nearly over,

1482
01:27:12,713 --> 01:27:14,908
"but today we received another letter
from Wiley College

1483
01:27:14,982 --> 01:27:16,142
written by Mr. Henry Lowe"?

1484
01:27:16,216 --> 01:27:17,240
Mm-hmm.

1485
01:27:17,318 --> 01:27:18,444
With an "e"?

1486
01:27:18,519 --> 01:27:20,282
"He told us from a student's perspective

1487
01:27:20,387 --> 01:27:23,618
about your"...ahem...
"about your undefeated season."

1488
01:27:23,724 --> 01:27:25,089
Well, we're not undefeated anymore.

1489
01:27:25,159 --> 01:27:26,387
Don't matter.

1490
01:27:26,494 --> 01:27:28,962
"We wish to extend an invitation to..."

1491
01:27:40,309 --> 01:27:42,072
"We wish to extend an invitation

1492
01:27:42,144 --> 01:27:46,911
"to debate Harvard Crimson
here in Cambridge.

1493
01:27:46,983 --> 01:27:50,578
Let us know if this is agreeable to you."

1494
01:27:59,696 --> 01:28:00,628
Honey...

1495
01:28:00,697 --> 01:28:01,595
Don't you tell anybody.

1496
01:28:01,732 --> 01:28:02,824
No.

1497
01:28:14,012 --> 01:28:15,604
No, you don't have to thank me.

1498
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:17,807
I just wanted to show you
I could write, too.

1499
01:28:17,882 --> 01:28:19,543
That's good. Thank you.

1500
01:28:21,419 --> 01:28:22,943
But you could do me a favor.

1501
01:28:23,021 --> 01:28:24,181
What's that?

1502
01:28:28,059 --> 01:28:29,822
Keep Samantha on the team.

1503
01:28:32,997 --> 01:28:34,328
Why would I do that?

1504
01:28:34,399 --> 01:28:37,493
Mr. Tolson, it was a rough night.

1505
01:28:37,568 --> 01:28:40,935
Yes, it was, Mr. Lowe, for all of us.

1506
01:28:41,005 --> 01:28:43,132
And she walked out on us
at the last minute.

1507
01:28:43,207 --> 01:28:46,506
No, sir. She did not walk out on us.

1508
01:28:47,680 --> 01:28:48,874
She walked out on me.

1509
01:28:57,490 --> 01:28:59,685
It's good tea.

1510
01:28:59,793 --> 01:29:02,626
Resolved:
Capitalism is immoral.

1511
01:29:02,763 --> 01:29:05,732
We will be arguing the affirmative.

1512
01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:07,700
To a bunch of Wall Street bankers.

1513
01:29:10,404 --> 01:29:12,838
Mr. Tolson, I owe you
and my teammates...

1514
01:29:12,907 --> 01:29:16,001
You're late. Come in. Sit down.

1515
01:29:25,487 --> 01:29:27,079
Samantha, I am not...

1516
01:29:37,100 --> 01:29:38,360
Resolved.

1517
01:29:40,926 --> 01:29:44,387


1518
01:29:47,900 --> 01:29:50,920
Okay, you got macaroni
and cheese, fried chicken,

1519
01:29:50,996 --> 01:29:52,410
black-eyed peas for good luck,

1520
01:29:52,478 --> 01:29:55,106
red beans and rice,
corn bread, candied yams.

1521
01:29:55,179 --> 01:29:56,986
I put some peach cobbler in there, too,

1522
01:29:57,057 --> 01:29:58,135
and some bread pudding.

1523
01:29:58,209 --> 01:30:01,365
I know you don't like bread pudding,
but I put it in there anyway.

1524
01:30:01,504 --> 01:30:02,649
Thank you, Mom.

1525
01:30:02,723 --> 01:30:03,643
Okay.

1526
01:30:03,712 --> 01:30:05,026
Good luck, son.

1527
01:30:06,973 --> 01:30:08,387
Dad?

1528
01:30:08,455 --> 01:30:10,229
Yes, Jim.

1529
01:30:13,298 --> 01:30:15,858
You give Boston my regards.

1530
01:30:15,933 --> 01:30:17,011
You hear?

1531
01:30:17,086 --> 01:30:18,624
Yes, sir.

1532
01:30:18,700 --> 01:30:19,845
James!

1533
01:30:19,919 --> 01:30:21,490
Come on! Train's leaving.

1534
01:30:21,566 --> 01:30:23,137
Coming!

1535
01:30:30,396 --> 01:30:31,710
- Bye, Mom.
- Bye-bye.

1536
01:30:31,779 --> 01:30:32,755
I love you.

1537
01:30:32,833 --> 01:30:33,843
Bye, sis.

1538
01:30:35,436 --> 01:30:36,648
Love you!

1539
01:30:36,720 --> 01:30:37,764
Love you, too.

1540
01:30:41,563 --> 01:30:45,179
All aboard leaving for Texarkana, Little Rock,

1541
01:30:45,285 --> 01:30:49,002
St. Louis, and all points north!

1542
01:30:49,075 --> 01:30:52,091
All aboard!

1543
01:30:52,200 --> 01:30:53,791
I'm not going with you.

1544
01:30:53,868 --> 01:30:55,494
What?

1545
01:30:55,568 --> 01:30:56,898
I cannot leave this state.

1546
01:30:56,969 --> 01:30:58,560
It's a condition of my bail.

1547
01:30:58,636 --> 01:30:59,932
You can't let them stop you.

1548
01:31:00,004 --> 01:31:01,664
They're not stopping me.

1549
01:31:01,805 --> 01:31:05,398
I just don't want to
jeopardize your opportunity.

1550
01:31:05,473 --> 01:31:06,803
You can win without me.

1551
01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:08,670
This is what you wanted
to do all along, isn't it?

1552
01:31:08,708 --> 01:31:10,140
He's right.

1553
01:31:10,209 --> 01:31:12,266
Why didn't you tell us this before?

1554
01:31:12,344 --> 01:31:13,970
Because I didn't want
to hear your arguments.

1555
01:31:14,078 --> 01:31:15,977
I knew they'd be too good.

1556
01:31:22,249 --> 01:31:24,613
All right, Mr. Lowe, you're in charge.

1557
01:31:24,684 --> 01:31:28,140
Whatever your instincts
tell you, you listen.

1558
01:31:28,219 --> 01:31:29,150
Yes, sir.

1559
01:31:29,219 --> 01:31:30,207
Let's go.

1560
01:31:31,721 --> 01:31:32,812
Let's go.

1561
01:31:34,623 --> 01:31:36,317
What are we supposed
to do without you?

1562
01:31:36,390 --> 01:31:38,549
Win.

1563
01:33:05,905 --> 01:33:08,428
Chicago Express, with service to Hartford,

1564
01:33:08,474 --> 01:33:10,736
New York, and Philadelphia,

1565
01:33:10,775 --> 01:33:13,742
now boarding, Track 29.

1566
01:33:19,446 --> 01:33:21,174
I thought somebody was
supposed to meet us.

1567
01:33:27,652 --> 01:33:28,845
Wiley College?

1568
01:33:28,953 --> 01:33:29,884
- Yes.
- Yes.

1569
01:33:29,953 --> 01:33:30,976
I'm Harland Osbourne.

1570
01:33:31,087 --> 01:33:33,553
Harvard has put me in charge of you
for the time that you'll be here in Boston.

1571
01:33:33,622 --> 01:33:35,884
- How you doing? I'm Henry Lowe.
- Mr. Lowe.

1572
01:33:35,956 --> 01:33:37,286
- James Farmer, Jr.
- Mr. Farmer.

1573
01:33:37,357 --> 01:33:38,880
- Samantha Booke.
- Of course. Miss Booke.

1574
01:33:38,958 --> 01:33:41,686
We should be going.
My car's out front.

1575
01:33:41,759 --> 01:33:42,690
I've got it.

1576
01:33:42,759 --> 01:33:43,690
Oh, thank you.

1577
01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:44,953
Just so you know,

1578
01:33:45,027 --> 01:33:46,721
you'll be staying on campus
in Douglas Hall.

1579
01:33:46,795 --> 01:33:47,988
I've got to tell you,

1580
01:33:48,063 --> 01:33:49,757
this debate is stirring up
a lot of excitement.

1581
01:33:49,830 --> 01:33:50,989
- Really?
- Oh, yeah.

1582
01:33:51,064 --> 01:33:53,530
It's gonna be broadcast
all over America.

1583
01:33:53,599 --> 01:33:56,225
Can we see where we're
going to debate?

1584
01:33:56,300 --> 01:33:57,327
Of course.

1585
01:34:25,226 --> 01:34:28,250
Hello, Harvard!

1586
01:34:43,569 --> 01:34:44,660
Excuse me.

1587
01:34:44,736 --> 01:34:46,861
You supposed to be here?

1588
01:34:49,439 --> 01:34:52,270
I guess we'll find out, won't we?

1589
01:35:07,981 --> 01:35:09,106
Ah!

1590
01:35:12,983 --> 01:35:14,040
Well, look.

1591
01:35:14,151 --> 01:35:15,344
"Mr. Farmer."

1592
01:35:20,289 --> 01:35:22,551
$5.00?

1593
01:35:22,622 --> 01:35:23,781
Lowe, I got $5.00.

1594
01:35:23,857 --> 01:35:26,153
Yeah, I did, too. It's called per diem.

1595
01:35:26,224 --> 01:35:27,690
Hoo-hoo!

1596
01:35:27,759 --> 01:35:29,589
You want me to hold it for you?

1597
01:35:29,660 --> 01:35:31,592
No, not my $5.00.

1598
01:35:38,263 --> 01:35:41,924
I got $5.00. I got $5.00.

1599
01:35:42,032 --> 01:35:42,998
Me, too.

1600
01:35:43,099 --> 01:35:45,190
Well, mine is crispy.

1601
01:35:46,901 --> 01:35:51,460
James, this is high tea, all right?

1602
01:35:51,536 --> 01:35:55,469
We nibble. We do not devour.

1603
01:35:55,538 --> 01:35:57,402
How do you know?

1604
01:35:57,472 --> 01:35:59,098
I don't.

1605
01:36:00,875 --> 01:36:03,137
Hello. I'm Wilson.

1606
01:36:03,209 --> 01:36:05,539
This is for you.

1607
01:36:05,611 --> 01:36:07,043
Thank you.

1608
01:36:09,646 --> 01:36:12,477
I can't accept that, sir.

1609
01:36:12,547 --> 01:36:14,446
It would be inappropriate.

1610
01:36:20,052 --> 01:36:21,678
It would be inappropriate.

1611
01:36:24,454 --> 01:36:25,420
Who's it from?

1612
01:36:25,487 --> 01:36:26,612
It's from Harvard.

1613
01:36:26,689 --> 01:36:28,019
Maybe it's more money.

1614
01:36:28,089 --> 01:36:29,146
Hmm.

1615
01:36:29,222 --> 01:36:31,745
"We have been informed
by Tau Kappa Gamma

1616
01:36:31,824 --> 01:36:33,586
"that your team delivers...

1617
01:36:34,858 --> 01:36:37,017
"canned speeches:

1618
01:36:37,093 --> 01:36:41,083
"Arguments written by faculty
rather than students.

1619
01:36:41,163 --> 01:36:42,857
"Therefore, we are
changing the topic.

1620
01:36:42,930 --> 01:36:44,794
"You will have
the same amount of time

1621
01:36:44,864 --> 01:36:46,955
"to write new arguments
as the Harvard team:

1622
01:36:47,066 --> 01:36:48,623
48 hours."

1623
01:36:50,068 --> 01:36:52,398
Coaches help students all the time.

1624
01:36:52,468 --> 01:36:53,559
Yes, sir.

1625
01:36:53,669 --> 01:36:55,862
"Both teams will be delivered

1626
01:36:55,936 --> 01:36:57,027
the same reference books."

1627
01:36:57,104 --> 01:36:58,070
Yes, sir.

1628
01:36:58,137 --> 01:36:59,262
"Our new topic:
Resolved:

1629
01:36:59,339 --> 01:37:02,067
"Civil disobedience is a moral weapon
in the fight for justice."

1630
01:37:02,206 --> 01:37:04,798
Wiley College will be
arguing the affirmative."

1631
01:37:04,874 --> 01:37:06,033
Thank you, sir.

1632
01:37:09,476 --> 01:37:12,170
I can't reach Mr. Tolson.
Nobody knows where he is.

1633
01:37:12,244 --> 01:37:14,767
They're setting us up to lose.

1634
01:37:14,846 --> 01:37:16,676
We can't win without him.

1635
01:37:16,747 --> 01:37:19,407
You're wrong.
We can't win without him.

1636
01:37:23,551 --> 01:37:25,040
Thoreau?

1637
01:37:25,151 --> 01:37:27,447
"...less desponding free spirits,

1638
01:37:27,519 --> 01:37:28,746
is in her prisons..."

1639
01:37:28,820 --> 01:37:31,887
"Under a government
which imprisons any unjustly,

1640
01:37:31,888 --> 01:37:33,320
the true place for a just man..."

1641
01:37:33,389 --> 01:37:34,878
Here's your coffee, sir.

1642
01:37:34,956 --> 01:37:36,582
Thank you, Mr. Wilson.

1643
01:37:36,657 --> 01:37:38,055
Just Wilson.

1644
01:37:38,124 --> 01:37:39,249
Thank you, Wilson.

1645
01:37:39,325 --> 01:37:40,416
"...has provided for her freer

1646
01:37:40,492 --> 01:37:41,515
"and less desponding spirits..."

1647
01:37:43,061 --> 01:37:44,993
But you have to use
the Massacre at Amritsar.

1648
01:37:45,062 --> 01:37:46,528
Agreed, James,

1649
01:37:46,596 --> 01:37:48,358
but we'll save it for the rebuttal.

1650
01:37:48,430 --> 01:37:50,329
We're going to save the best for last

1651
01:37:50,398 --> 01:37:52,297
because you have
to leave the audience...

1652
01:37:52,366 --> 01:37:55,765
I think we should get into Gandhi's
concept of Satyagraha.

1653
01:37:55,867 --> 01:37:57,163
I don't agree.

1654
01:37:57,267 --> 01:37:58,790
I don't think people
are gonna understand what...

1655
01:37:58,902 --> 01:38:00,562
what... Sadagara?

1656
01:38:00,703 --> 01:38:02,567
Sactchmaget? Sactchma...

1657
01:38:02,637 --> 01:38:03,603
Satyagraha.

1658
01:38:03,672 --> 01:38:05,138
From the Sanskrit.

1659
01:38:05,239 --> 01:38:08,604
Meaning truth and fairness.

1660
01:38:16,277 --> 01:38:17,709
I told you.

1661
01:38:17,779 --> 01:38:18,904
It's... It's obvious to me

1662
01:38:18,979 --> 01:38:20,639
that we should begin
the debate with Gandhi.

1663
01:38:20,713 --> 01:38:22,179
That's exactly why I won't do it.

1664
01:38:22,247 --> 01:38:23,679
Why should I do the obvious thing?

1665
01:38:23,748 --> 01:38:24,873
Because that's what wins debates!

1666
01:38:24,949 --> 01:38:26,813
Listen to what you're saying.
This is Harvard, okay?

1667
01:38:26,883 --> 01:38:29,111
The first thing you think
when you think civil disobedience is what?

1668
01:38:29,218 --> 01:38:30,479
That's why we should use Gandhi!

1669
01:38:30,585 --> 01:38:31,812
But Gandhi is a strong point!

1670
01:38:31,918 --> 01:38:33,817
I want to win! Do you want to win?

1671
01:38:33,886 --> 01:38:35,943
Yes, I want to win, but he's right!

1672
01:38:36,054 --> 01:38:37,213
This is not getting us anywhere!

1673
01:38:37,287 --> 01:38:38,583
Tolson told me I was in charge!

1674
01:38:38,656 --> 01:38:39,917
He didn't put you in charge!

1675
01:38:39,990 --> 01:38:41,752
You're "in charge" does not mean...

1676
01:38:41,824 --> 01:38:42,949
So I can make decisions.

1677
01:38:43,024 --> 01:38:44,320
We're not starting with Gandhi!

1678
01:38:44,393 --> 01:38:45,518
Yes, we are!

1679
01:38:45,593 --> 01:38:47,525
Do you hear yourself?
You sound like a kid!

1680
01:38:47,594 --> 01:38:49,220
Well, you are a kid!

1681
01:38:49,294 --> 01:38:50,760
Fellas, come on!

1682
01:38:50,828 --> 01:38:52,454
- I'm an idiot?
- Yes!

1683
01:38:52,529 --> 01:38:53,995
To hell with you!
To hell with you!

1684
01:38:54,063 --> 01:38:55,188
To hell with this debate!

1685
01:38:55,264 --> 01:38:57,128
To hell with me?
To hell with me?

1686
01:38:57,198 --> 01:38:58,858
Just because I disagree with you?

1687
01:38:58,932 --> 01:39:00,091
If you're gonna walk out, fine!

1688
01:39:00,166 --> 01:39:02,325
We're not chasing you!

1689
01:39:02,501 --> 01:39:06,798
We are so tired of chasing you!

1690
01:39:12,373 --> 01:39:13,566
He's coming back, isn't he?

1691
01:39:13,640 --> 01:39:15,231
See if I care!

1692
01:40:20,340 --> 01:40:21,704
How you doing, man?

1693
01:40:26,677 --> 01:40:29,007


1694
01:41:21,973 --> 01:41:23,837
You're beautiful when you're asleep.

1695
01:41:36,279 --> 01:41:37,745
Henry, l...

1696
01:41:37,814 --> 01:41:40,042
Yeah, I know, I know.

1697
01:41:40,114 --> 01:41:43,570
But you can't stop me
from looking at you.

1698
01:41:43,650 --> 01:41:47,296
Can everybody shut up and go to bed?

1699
01:41:47,370 --> 01:41:50,134
James, come on, wake up.

1700
01:41:50,240 --> 01:41:51,468
No.

1701
01:41:51,575 --> 01:41:52,542
James.

1702
01:41:57,315 --> 01:41:59,215
Come on, James, get up.

1703
01:42:05,424 --> 01:42:06,823
What?

1704
01:42:12,030 --> 01:42:14,021
What is this?

1705
01:42:14,099 --> 01:42:16,567
That's my notes.

1706
01:42:18,303 --> 01:42:20,362
What are you giving them to me for?

1707
01:42:20,439 --> 01:42:22,202
Because you're debating, not me.

1708
01:42:22,307 --> 01:42:24,798
What?

1709
01:42:24,910 --> 01:42:26,844
It's your turn, James.

1710
01:42:26,912 --> 01:42:28,277
You serious?

1711
01:42:29,715 --> 01:42:30,074
You're crazy.

1712
01:42:30,100 --> 01:42:32,322
At 14, you're just as good as me.

1713
01:42:32,400 --> 01:42:34,397
The judges will love you.

1714
01:42:34,500 --> 01:42:35,694
No. No. You can't quit.

1715
01:42:35,769 --> 01:42:37,794
I'm not quitting, Samantha.

1716
01:42:39,639 --> 01:42:43,405
Tolson made me captain,
and he said you were ready.

1717
01:42:43,476 --> 01:42:45,341
Yeah, but you saw me at Howard.

1718
01:42:45,411 --> 01:42:46,605
I was horrible.

1719
01:42:46,679 --> 01:42:48,203
That's right. You did terrible, didn't you?

1720
01:42:48,281 --> 01:42:49,578
Stunk up the whole joint, right?

1721
01:42:49,649 --> 01:42:51,378
So you should just quit, right?

1722
01:42:51,451 --> 01:42:52,884
You should just give up.

1723
01:42:56,556 --> 01:42:57,545
No.

1724
01:43:03,329 --> 01:43:05,263
Who's the judge?

1725
01:43:06,499 --> 01:43:07,898
What?

1726
01:43:07,934 --> 01:43:10,061
Who's the judge?

1727
01:43:12,372 --> 01:43:14,533
The judge is God.

1728
01:43:15,810 --> 01:43:17,539
And why is he God?

1729
01:43:19,246 --> 01:43:24,081
Because he decides who wins or loses,
not my opponent.

1730
01:43:24,151 --> 01:43:27,086
And who is your opponent?

1731
01:43:27,154 --> 01:43:29,679
He doesn't exist.

1732
01:43:29,791 --> 01:43:32,555
Why doesn't he exist?

1733
01:43:32,661 --> 01:43:35,152
Because he is a mere a dissenting voice

1734
01:43:35,263 --> 01:43:37,322
to the truth that I speak.

1735
01:43:40,068 --> 01:43:41,296
That's right.

1736
01:43:41,370 --> 01:43:43,215
Speak the truth.

1737
01:43:44,556 --> 01:43:46,929
Direct from Harvard Memorial Hall

1738
01:43:47,000 --> 01:43:48,866
in Cambridge, Massachusetts,

1739
01:43:48,936 --> 01:43:52,704
this is WNBC Radio,
bringing to you live

1740
01:43:52,776 --> 01:43:54,438
tonight's history-making debate

1741
01:43:54,513 --> 01:43:58,042
between little Wiley College
from Marshall, Texas,

1742
01:43:58,119 --> 01:44:00,520
and the Harvard University Debate team,

1743
01:44:00,656 --> 01:44:01,850
the first time ever

1744
01:44:01,958 --> 01:44:04,291
a Negro college has faced
the national champions.

1745
01:44:04,362 --> 01:44:05,420
Harvard's Dean of Students

1746
01:44:05,531 --> 01:44:07,397
is making his way to the podium now.

1747
01:44:07,434 --> 01:44:09,835
The crowd, as if on cue, falls silent.

1748
01:44:11,174 --> 01:44:13,109
On this historic occasion,

1749
01:44:13,177 --> 01:44:16,113
we welcome the distinguished team
from Wiley College,

1750
01:44:16,182 --> 01:44:19,277
our illustrious judges, you the audience,

1751
01:44:19,353 --> 01:44:22,847
and through the wonder
of radio, the nation.

1752
01:44:22,926 --> 01:44:27,194
Harvard University celebrates
its 300th anniversary this year,

1753
01:44:27,266 --> 01:44:31,898
and, in Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
its fifth President of the United States.

1754
01:44:31,974 --> 01:44:35,912
But no university, no matter how grand
or august in its history,

1755
01:44:36,014 --> 01:44:38,540
can afford to live in the past.

1756
01:44:38,652 --> 01:44:42,420
So, in the spirit of tomorrow,

1757
01:44:42,493 --> 01:44:45,429
I introduce to you today:

1758
01:44:46,665 --> 01:44:48,634
The debaters from Wiley College:

1759
01:44:48,702 --> 01:44:50,067
Miss Samantha Booke,

1760
01:44:50,137 --> 01:44:52,129
Mr. James Farmer, Junior.

1761
01:44:53,544 --> 01:44:55,068
What?

1762
01:45:03,895 --> 01:45:07,298
Mr. Farmer will argue the first affirmative.

1763
01:45:26,532 --> 01:45:28,797
Resolved:

1764
01:45:28,870 --> 01:45:32,330
Civil disobedience is a moral weapon

1765
01:45:32,409 --> 01:45:35,345
in the fight for justice.

1766
01:45:35,414 --> 01:45:38,543
But how can disobedience
ever be moral?

1767
01:45:38,619 --> 01:45:39,984
Well, I guess that depends

1768
01:45:40,055 --> 01:45:42,889
on one's definition of the words.

1769
01:45:42,993 --> 01:45:43,982
Word.

1770
01:45:45,998 --> 01:45:48,866
In 1919, in India,

1771
01:45:48,936 --> 01:45:53,602
10,000 people gathered in Amritsar
to protest the tyranny of British rule.

1772
01:45:53,678 --> 01:45:54,736
Has it started?

1773
01:45:54,813 --> 01:45:55,871
- Shh!
- Your brother's talking.

1774
01:45:55,948 --> 01:45:57,176
Just sit down.

1775
01:45:57,250 --> 01:46:00,414
General Reginald Dyer
trapped them in a courtyard

1776
01:46:00,556 --> 01:46:05,519
and ordered his troops
to fire into the crowd for ten minutes.

1777
01:46:05,597 --> 01:46:07,623
379 died...

1778
01:46:07,667 --> 01:46:12,801
men, women, children...

1779
01:46:12,843 --> 01:46:14,573
Shot down in cold blood.

1780
01:46:14,679 --> 01:46:19,118
Dyer said he had
taught them a moral lesson.

1781
01:46:19,220 --> 01:46:23,022
Gandhi and his followers responded
not with violence

1782
01:46:23,093 --> 01:46:27,395
but with an organized
campaign of non-cooperation.

1783
01:46:27,467 --> 01:46:30,130
Government buildings were occupied.

1784
01:46:30,205 --> 01:46:32,834
Streets were blocked
with people who refused to rise,

1785
01:46:32,910 --> 01:46:35,812
even when beaten by police.

1786
01:46:35,882 --> 01:46:38,283
Gandhi was arrested,

1787
01:46:38,353 --> 01:46:41,654
but the British were soon
forced to release him.

1788
01:46:41,725 --> 01:46:45,857
He called it a moral victory.

1789
01:46:45,932 --> 01:46:48,265
The definition of moral:

1790
01:46:48,369 --> 01:46:52,774
Dyer's lesson or Gandhi's victory?

1791
01:46:52,843 --> 01:46:54,310
You choose.

1792
01:47:12,074 --> 01:47:15,273
From 1914 to 1918,

1793
01:47:15,347 --> 01:47:20,549
for every single minute
the world was at war,

1794
01:47:20,622 --> 01:47:24,617
four men laid down their lives.

1795
01:47:24,729 --> 01:47:27,164
Just think of it.

1796
01:47:27,234 --> 01:47:32,470
240 brave young men
were hurled into eternity

1797
01:47:32,542 --> 01:47:35,945
every hour of every day, of every night,

1798
01:47:36,014 --> 01:47:38,711
for four long years.

1799
01:47:40,688 --> 01:47:44,126
35,000 hours.

1800
01:47:44,194 --> 01:47:50,603
8,281,000 casualties.

1801
01:47:52,544 --> 01:47:54,376
240.

1802
01:47:55,581 --> 01:47:57,709
240.

1803
01:47:57,819 --> 01:48:02,258
240.

1804
01:48:02,426 --> 01:48:03,859
Here was a slaughter

1805
01:48:03,929 --> 01:48:08,163
immeasurably greater than
what happened at Amritsar.

1806
01:48:08,202 --> 01:48:11,696
Can there be anything moral about it?

1807
01:48:13,077 --> 01:48:14,476
Nothing...

1808
01:48:14,545 --> 01:48:16,377
except that it stopped Germany

1809
01:48:16,449 --> 01:48:18,350
from enslaving all of Europe.

1810
01:48:18,419 --> 01:48:23,291
Civil disobedience isn't moral
because it's non-violent.

1811
01:48:23,360 --> 01:48:26,330
Fighting for your country with violence

1812
01:48:26,398 --> 01:48:28,867
can be deeply moral,

1813
01:48:28,970 --> 01:48:34,138
demanding the greatest
sacrifice of all:

1814
01:48:34,246 --> 01:48:36,545
Life itself.

1815
01:48:36,616 --> 01:48:40,054
Non-violence is the mask
civil disobedience wears

1816
01:48:40,155 --> 01:48:43,684
to conceal its true face...

1817
01:48:43,761 --> 01:48:46,253
anarchy.

1818
01:48:57,717 --> 01:49:00,482
Gandhi believes one must always act

1819
01:49:00,656 --> 01:49:03,455
with love and respect
for one's opponents,

1820
01:49:03,559 --> 01:49:06,085
even if they are Harvard debaters.

1821
01:49:07,700 --> 01:49:11,638
Gandhi also believes
that lawbreakers must accept

1822
01:49:11,708 --> 01:49:14,975
the legal consequences for their actions.

1823
01:49:15,048 --> 01:49:17,176
Does that sound like anarchy?

1824
01:49:17,251 --> 01:49:22,521
Civil disobedience is not something
for us to fear.

1825
01:49:22,592 --> 01:49:25,619
It is, after all, an American concept.

1826
01:49:25,698 --> 01:49:28,031
You see, Gandhi draws his inspiration

1827
01:49:28,102 --> 01:49:29,900
not from a Hindu scripture,

1828
01:49:29,972 --> 01:49:31,964
but from Henry David Thoreau,

1829
01:49:32,041 --> 01:49:34,567
who I believe graduated from Harvard

1830
01:49:34,679 --> 01:49:44,929
and lived by a pond
not too far from here.

1831
01:49:44,930 --> 01:49:48,129
My opponent is right about one thing.

1832
01:49:48,202 --> 01:49:50,728
Thoreau was a Harvard grad,

1833
01:49:50,805 --> 01:49:55,540
and, like many of us, a bit self-righteous.

1834
01:49:58,052 --> 01:50:03,254
He once said, "Any man
more right than his neighbors

1835
01:50:03,293 --> 01:50:07,026
constitutes a majority of one."

1836
01:50:07,067 --> 01:50:10,800
Thoreau the idealist could never know

1837
01:50:10,906 --> 01:50:14,935
that Adolf Hitler
would agree with his words.

1838
01:50:15,047 --> 01:50:20,181
The beauty and the burden
of democracy is this:

1839
01:50:20,255 --> 01:50:25,628
No idea prevails without
the support of the majority.

1840
01:50:25,696 --> 01:50:28,530
The people decide
the moral issues of the day,

1841
01:50:28,601 --> 01:50:30,968
not a majority of one.

1842
01:50:31,040 --> 01:50:35,502
Majorities do not decide
what is right or wrong.

1843
01:50:35,581 --> 01:50:37,550
Your conscience does.

1844
01:50:37,617 --> 01:50:40,280
So why should a citizen

1845
01:50:40,355 --> 01:50:42,847
surrender his or her conscience

1846
01:50:42,960 --> 01:50:44,291
to a legislator?

1847
01:50:44,396 --> 01:50:48,562
No, we must never, ever kneel down

1848
01:50:48,636 --> 01:50:51,538
before the tyranny of a majority.

1849
01:50:59,988 --> 01:51:03,517
We can't decide which laws
to obey and which to ignore.

1850
01:51:03,660 --> 01:51:06,186
If we could...

1851
01:51:06,265 --> 01:51:07,893
I'd never stop for a red light.

1852
01:51:09,770 --> 01:51:11,796
My father is one of those men

1853
01:51:11,875 --> 01:51:15,608
that stands between us and chaos:

1854
01:51:15,715 --> 01:51:18,184
A police officer.

1855
01:51:18,286 --> 01:51:24,228
I remember the day
his partner, his best friend,

1856
01:51:24,295 --> 01:51:26,958
was gunned down in the line of duty.

1857
01:51:28,969 --> 01:51:31,734
Most vividly of all,

1858
01:51:31,807 --> 01:51:35,301
I remember the expression
on my dad's face.

1859
01:51:37,417 --> 01:51:43,325
Nothing that erodes
the rule of law can be moral,

1860
01:51:43,393 --> 01:51:47,923
no matter what name we give it.

1861
01:51:50,439 --> 01:51:52,203
Bravo!

1862
01:52:36,383 --> 01:52:37,509
Why doesn't he say something?

1863
01:52:37,585 --> 01:52:38,813
Shh!

1864
01:52:55,380 --> 01:52:58,943
In Texas...

1865
01:52:59,053 --> 01:53:00,919
they lynch Negroes.

1866
01:53:03,327 --> 01:53:05,296
My teammates and I

1867
01:53:05,363 --> 01:53:09,631
saw a man strung up by his neck

1868
01:53:09,671 --> 01:53:11,229
and set on fire.

1869
01:53:13,711 --> 01:53:17,774
We drove through a lynch mob,

1870
01:53:17,851 --> 01:53:21,254
pressed our faces
against the floorboard.

1871
01:53:24,395 --> 01:53:27,422
I looked at my teammates.

1872
01:53:27,500 --> 01:53:30,527
I saw the fear in their eyes...

1873
01:53:32,943 --> 01:53:35,913
and worse...

1874
01:53:36,015 --> 01:53:37,277
the shame.

1875
01:53:40,522 --> 01:53:43,117
What was this Negro's crime

1876
01:53:43,193 --> 01:53:45,628
that he should be hung, without trial,

1877
01:53:45,698 --> 01:53:48,259
in a dark forest filled with fog?

1878
01:53:48,335 --> 01:53:52,330
Was he a thief?

1879
01:53:52,410 --> 01:53:55,539
Was he a killer?

1880
01:53:55,615 --> 01:53:57,139
Or just a Negro?

1881
01:53:59,421 --> 01:54:02,050
Was he a sharecropper?

1882
01:54:02,225 --> 01:54:04,353
A preacher?

1883
01:54:04,462 --> 01:54:07,489
Were his children waiting up for him?

1884
01:54:07,534 --> 01:54:13,635
And who are we to just
lie there and do nothing?

1885
01:54:16,315 --> 01:54:21,517
No matter what he did,
the mob was the criminal.

1886
01:54:21,590 --> 01:54:24,891
But the law did nothing,

1887
01:54:24,962 --> 01:54:28,297
just left us wondering why.

1888
01:54:34,545 --> 01:54:36,411
My opponent says

1889
01:54:36,516 --> 01:54:40,682
nothing that erodes the rule
of law can be moral.

1890
01:54:40,789 --> 01:54:43,623
But there is no rule of law
in the Jim Crow South,

1891
01:54:43,694 --> 01:54:46,163
not when Negroes are denied housing,

1892
01:54:46,265 --> 01:54:48,791
turned away from schools, hospitals,

1893
01:54:48,870 --> 01:54:51,101
and not when we are lynched.

1894
01:54:55,647 --> 01:54:57,046
St. Augustine said,

1895
01:54:57,116 --> 01:55:01,646
"An unjust law is no law at all,"

1896
01:55:01,791 --> 01:55:03,623
which means I have a right,

1897
01:55:03,694 --> 01:55:06,357
even a duty, to resist...

1898
01:55:08,703 --> 01:55:13,404
with violence or civil disobedience.

1899
01:55:17,785 --> 01:55:20,311
You should pray I choose the latter.

1900
01:55:33,711 --> 01:55:35,805
Bravo!

1901
01:55:52,075 --> 01:55:53,337
In tonight's debate

1902
01:55:53,410 --> 01:55:59,113
between Harvard University
and Wiley College...

1903
01:56:02,392 --> 01:56:04,088
And the winner is...

1904
01:56:27,000 --> 01:56:28,662
Wiley College.

1905
01:56:28,737 --> 01:56:31,332
Yeah!

1906
02:02:51,073 --> 02:02:52,301


1907
02:02:56,315 --> 02:02:58,978
# Veil my face #

1908
02:02:59,086 --> 02:03:01,419
# Veil my face #

1909
02:03:01,557 --> 02:03:02,922
# Veil my face #

1910
02:03:02,993 --> 02:03:04,290
# Got two wings #

1911
02:03:04,362 --> 02:03:05,522
# Veil my face #

1912
02:03:05,597 --> 02:03:06,859
# Got two wings #

1913
02:03:06,933 --> 02:03:08,127
# Veil my feet #

1914
02:03:08,202 --> 02:03:09,362
# Got two wings #

1915
02:03:09,404 --> 02:03:10,530
# Fly away #

1916
02:03:10,572 --> 02:03:11,834
# Can't no man #

1917
02:03:11,908 --> 02:03:13,068
# Do me no harm #

1918
02:03:13,143 --> 02:03:14,303
# Got two wings #

1919
02:03:14,379 --> 02:03:15,676
# Veil my face #

1920
02:03:15,748 --> 02:03:16,942
# Got two wings #

1921
02:03:17,016 --> 02:03:18,210
# Veil my feet #

1922
02:03:18,285 --> 02:03:19,445
# Got two wings #

1923
02:03:19,520 --> 02:03:20,578
# Fly away #

1924
02:03:20,656 --> 02:03:21,918
# Can't no man #

1925
02:03:21,991 --> 02:03:23,288
# Do me no harm #

1926
02:03:23,360 --> 02:03:25,454
# Gather 'cause my soul is #

1927
02:03:25,530 --> 02:03:27,999
# Callin' out my name #

1928
02:03:28,067 --> 02:03:30,502
# Got two wings ready #

1929
02:03:30,605 --> 02:03:33,040
# And me just the same #

1930
02:03:33,110 --> 02:03:35,375
# Oh, brothers and sisters #

1931
02:03:35,446 --> 02:03:37,972
# Meet me in the air #

1932
02:03:38,084 --> 02:03:40,280
# If my wings fail me #

1933
02:03:40,355 --> 02:03:42,722
# I'll get another pair #

1934
02:03:42,794 --> 02:03:44,056
# I got two wings #

1935
02:03:44,130 --> 02:03:45,154
# Veil my face #

1936
02:03:45,231 --> 02:03:46,562
# Got two wings #

1937
02:03:46,633 --> 02:03:47,895
# Veil my feet #

1938
02:03:47,969 --> 02:03:49,095
# Got two wings #

1939
02:03:49,171 --> 02:03:50,195
# Fly away #

1940
02:03:50,272 --> 02:03:51,569
# Can't no man #

1941
02:03:51,641 --> 02:03:52,903
# Do me no harm #

1942
02:03:52,977 --> 02:03:54,069
# Ooh-ooh #

1943
02:03:54,146 --> 02:03:55,306
# Ooh-ooh #

1944
02:03:55,381 --> 02:03:56,746
# Ooh-ooh #

1945
02:03:56,817 --> 02:03:57,784
# Ooh-ooh #

1946
02:03:57,851 --> 02:03:58,977
# Ooh-ooh #

1947
02:03:59,053 --> 02:04:00,042
# Ooh-ooh #

1948
02:04:00,122 --> 02:04:01,350
# Uh-huh-huh #

1949
02:04:01,491 --> 02:04:02,753
# Uh-huh-huh #

1950
02:04:02,826 --> 02:04:03,918
# Woo-ooh #

1951
02:04:04,028 --> 02:04:05,086
# Ooh-ooh #

1952
02:04:05,197 --> 02:04:06,186
# Woo-ooh #

1953
02:04:06,299 --> 02:04:07,493
# Woo-ooh #

1954
02:04:07,600 --> 02:04:08,532
# Woo-ooh #

1955
02:04:08,569 --> 02:04:09,797
# Woo-ooh #

1956
02:04:09,838 --> 02:04:10,998
# Hey, hey, hey #

1957
02:04:11,073 --> 02:04:12,233
# Hey, hey #

1958
02:04:12,308 --> 02:04:13,639
# Fly away #

1959
02:04:13,710 --> 02:04:14,870
# Fly away #

1960
02:04:14,946 --> 02:04:16,174
# Fly-y-y #

1961
02:04:16,248 --> 02:04:17,306
# Fly away #

1962
02:04:17,384 --> 02:04:18,612
# Fly-y-y #

1963
02:04:18,685 --> 02:04:19,879
# Fly away #

1964
02:04:19,954 --> 02:04:21,114
# Fly-y-y #

1965
02:04:21,190 --> 02:04:23,421
# Fly away #

1966
02:04:23,494 --> 02:04:25,895
# Fly away #

1967
02:04:25,965 --> 02:04:27,330
# Fly away #

1968
02:04:27,401 --> 02:04:30,668
# Mm-hmm #

1969
02:04:30,739 --> 02:04:32,731


1970
02:04:42,492 --> 02:04:45,656
# Hmm #

1971
02:04:45,730 --> 02:04:47,824


1972
02:04:47,901 --> 02:04:52,033
# Hmm #

1973
02:04:53,376 --> 02:04:58,783
# Hmm #

1974
02:04:58,852 --> 02:05:02,187
# Hmm #

1975
02:05:04,328 --> 02:05:09,792
# Hmm #

1976
02:05:09,839 --> 02:05:14,973
# Hmm #

1977
02:05:15,047 --> 02:05:19,213
# Hmm-mm-mm-mm #

1978
02:05:19,288 --> 02:05:22,053
# Hmm #

1979
02:05:22,125 --> 02:05:24,526
# Hmm #

1980
02:05:24,596 --> 02:05:27,225
# Up above my head #

1981
02:05:27,301 --> 02:05:29,793
# Above my head #

1982
02:05:29,871 --> 02:05:31,965
# I hear music in the air #

1983
02:05:32,042 --> 02:05:35,377
# Music in the air #

1984
02:05:35,447 --> 02:05:37,439
# Up above my head #

1985
02:05:37,517 --> 02:05:40,818
# Up above my head #

1986
02:05:40,889 --> 02:05:43,051
# I hear music in the air #

1987
02:05:43,161 --> 02:05:46,394
# Music in the air #

1988
02:05:46,499 --> 02:05:48,365
# Up above my head #

1989
02:05:48,436 --> 02:05:51,805
# Up above my head #

1990
02:05:51,874 --> 02:05:53,809
# I hear music in the air #

1991
02:05:53,878 --> 02:05:57,372
# Music in the air #

1992
02:05:57,451 --> 02:05:59,113
# I really do believe #

1993
02:05:59,187 --> 02:06:01,520
# Yes, I do believe #

1994
02:06:01,657 --> 02:06:02,681
# Hey, hey #

1995
02:06:02,759 --> 02:06:05,456
# There's a heaven somewhere #

1996
02:06:05,530 --> 02:06:07,761
# Heaven somewhere #

1997
02:06:07,834 --> 02:06:10,429
# Up above my head #

1998
02:06:10,472 --> 02:06:12,907
# Up above my head #

1999
02:06:12,943 --> 02:06:15,538
# I hear music in the air #

2000
02:06:15,613 --> 02:06:18,684
# Music in the air #

2001
02:06:18,685 --> 02:06:21,314
# Up above my head #

2002
02:06:21,424 --> 02:06:23,950
# Up above my head #

2003
02:06:24,062 --> 02:06:26,224
# I hear music in the air #

2004
02:06:26,298 --> 02:06:29,369
# Music in the air #

2005
02:06:29,370 --> 02:06:31,498
# Up above my head #

2006
02:06:31,573 --> 02:06:34,874
# Up above my head #

2007
02:06:34,946 --> 02:06:36,812
# I hear music in the air #

2008
02:06:36,884 --> 02:06:40,185
# Music in the air #

2009
02:06:40,256 --> 02:06:42,122
# I really do believe #

2010
02:06:42,192 --> 02:06:45,527
# Yes, I do believe #

2011
02:06:45,597 --> 02:06:48,396
# There's a heaven somewhere #

2012
02:06:48,469 --> 02:06:53,033
# Heaven somewhere #