The Great Debaters (Finale)
James Farmer Jr in the Harvard Debate
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Brother
: Why doesn’t he say something?
James
: In Texas... they
criminal
denied
duty
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fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
Negroes. My teammates and l saw a man strung up by his
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
and set on
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
. We drove through a lynch mob, pressed our faces against the floorboard. l looked at my teammates. l saw the
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
in their eyes...and worse...the
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
.
What was this Negro's crime that he should be hung, without
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
, in a dark forest filled with
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
? Was he a
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
? Was he a killer? Or just a Negro? Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
for him?
And who are we to just lie there and do
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
? No matter what he did, the mob was the
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
. But the law did nothing,just left us wondering why.
My opponent says nothing that
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
the rule of law can be
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
.
But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow South, not when Negroes are
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
housing,
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
from schools, hospitals, and not when we are lynched.
St. Augustine said, “An
criminal
denied
duty
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fear
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moral
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nothing
pray
shame
thief
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turned away
unjust
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winner
law is no law at all,” which means l have a right, even a
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
, to resist...with violence or civil disobedience.
You should
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
l choose the
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
.
Dean
: In tonight's debate between Harvard University and Wiley College... And the
criminal
denied
duty
erodes
fear
fire
fog
latter
lynch
moral
neck
nothing
pray
shame
thief
trial
turned away
unjust
waiting up
winner
is... Wiley College.
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