And just what am I supposed to be doing?
4 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - The Long Road (The story of Mary Church Terrell) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:04:04 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- The Constitution says everybody's free and equal, and I intend to stick by it like gospel.
- And Tom and I, children of newly freed slaves, would wonder at the world around us.
- And already there was a militant manner in his outlook that I longed to have.
- And when I asked him how he got that way, he said...
- I'm a man. I'm supposed to fight for what's my own, your pa says.
- And just what am I supposed to be doing?
- You're a woman. You're supposed to keep out of the way... your pa says.
- It was true. My father had said this.
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