The Great Debaters

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  1. civil disobedience
    refusal to comply with a law as a form of political protest
    James Farmer, Jr: Resolved: Civil disobedience is a moral weapon in the fight for justice.
  2. Gandhi
    political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948)
    Gandhi and his followers responded not with violence, but with an organized campaign of noncooperation.
  3. Thoreau
    United States writer and social critic (1817-1862)
    You see, Gandhi draws his inspiration not from a Hindu scripture, but from Henry David Thoreau, who, I believe, graduated from Harvard and lived by a pond not too far from here.
  4. Augustan
    relating to or characteristic of the times of the Roman Emperor Augustus
    But no university, no matter how grand or Augustan its history, can afford to live in the past.
  5. nonviolent
    achieved without bloodshed
    Civil disobedience isn't moral because it's nonviolent.
  6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    32nd President of the United States
    Harvard University celebrates its 300th anniversary this year, and in Franklin Delano Roosevelt, its fifth President of the United States.
  7. Harvard University
    a university in Massachusetts
    Harvard University celebrates its 300th anniversary this year, and in Franklin Delano Roosevelt, its fifth President of the United States.
  8. anarchy
    a state of lawlessness and disorder
    Nonviolence is the mask civil disobedience wears to conceal its true face: anarchy.
  9. civil
    of or occurring between or among citizens of the state
    James Farmer, Jr: Resolved: Civil disobedience is a moral weapon in the fight for justice.
  10. President of the United States
    the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government
    Harvard University celebrates its 300th anniversary this year, and in Franklin Delano Roosevelt, its fifth President of the United States.
  11. casualty
    someone injured or killed in an accident
    Thirty-five thousand hours; eight million, two hundred and eighty-one thousand casualties.
  12. Hindu
    of or relating to or supporting Hinduism
    You see, Gandhi draws his inspiration not from a Hindu scripture, but from Henry David Thoreau, who, I believe, graduated from Harvard and lived by a pond not too far from here.
  13. scripture
    any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group
    You see, Gandhi draws his inspiration not from a Hindu scripture, but from Henry David Thoreau, who, I believe, graduated from Harvard and lived by a pond not too far from here.
  14. tyranny
    government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator
    In 1919, in India, ten thousand people gathered in Amritsar to protest the tyranny of British rule.
  15. pond
    a small lake
    You see, Gandhi draws his inspiration not from a Hindu scripture, but from Henry David Thoreau, who, I believe, graduated from Harvard and lived by a pond not too far from here.
  16. Hitler
    German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)
    Thoreau the idealist could never know that Adolf Hitler would
  17. victory
    a successful ending of a struggle or contest
    He called it a "moral victory."
  18. mask
    a covering to disguise or conceal the face
    Nonviolence is the mask civil disobedience wears to conceal its true face: anarchy.
  19. university
    an institution of higher learning that grants degrees
    Harvard University celebrates its 300th anniversary this year, and in Franklin Delano Roosevelt, its fifth President of the United States.
  20. James
    disciple of Jesus
    So, in the spirit of tomorrow, I introduce to you, today, the debaters from Wiley College: Samantha Booke and Mr. James Farmer, Jr. Mr. Farmer will argue the first affirmative.
  21. legal
    established by or founded upon law or official rules
    Gandhi also believes that law breakers must accept the legal consequences for their actions.
  22. weapon
    any instrument used in fighting or hunting
    James Farmer, Jr: Resolved: Civil disobedience is a moral weapon in the fight for justice.
  23. India
    a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia
    In 1919, in India, ten thousand people gathered in Amritsar to protest the tyranny of British rule.
  24. justice
    the quality of being fair, reasonable, or impartial
    James Farmer, Jr: Resolved: Civil disobedience is a moral weapon in the fight for justice.
  25. Germany
    a republic in central Europe
    Nothing -- except that it stopped Germany from enslaving all of Europe.
  26. United States
    North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
    Harvard University celebrates its 300th anniversary this year, and in Franklin Delano Roosevelt, its fifth President of the United States.
  27. Europe
    the 2nd smallest continent
    Nothing -- except that it stopped Germany from enslaving all of Europe.
  28. nation
    a politically organized body of people under a government
    Harvard Dean: On this historic occasion, we welcome the distinguished team from Wiley College, our illustrious judges, you, the audience, and through the wonder of radio, the nation.
  29. sound
    mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium
    Does that sound like anarchy?
  30. government
    the system or form by which a community is ruled
    Government buildings were occupied.
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