Movie Details
Theatrical Release:December 27th, 2007
On DVD & Blu-ray:May 13th, 2008
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Movie Budget:$15,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$30,226,144 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:David Crockett,
Bob Weinstein,
Harvey Weinstein
Production Companies:Marshall Production, The Weinstein Company, Harpo Films
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The Great Debaters Quotes
The Impact of Poverty on Human Dignity
Henry Lowe:
A brilliant young woman I know was asked once to support her argument in favor of social welfare. She named the most powerful source imaginable: the look in a mother's face when she cannot feed her children. Can you look that hungry child in the eyes? See the blood on his feet from working barefoot in the cotton fields. Or do you ask his baby sister with her belly swollen from hunger if she cares about her daddy's work ethics?
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Call for Immediate Equality and Justice
Samantha Booke:
The state is currently spending five times more for the education for a white child than it is fitting to educate a colored child. That means better textbooks for that child than for that child. I say that's a shame, but my opponent says today is not the day for whites and coloreds to go to the same college. To share the same campus. To walk into the same classroom. Well, would you kindly tell me when that day is gonna come? Is it going to come tomorrow? Is it going to come next week? In a hundred years? Never? No, the time for justice, the time for freedom, and the time for equality is always, is always right now!
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