How do you get the men to vote for equality when just the sound of the word makes 'em mad?
7 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 00:19:52 in the radio play.
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- And in corn fields in Kansas, I talked to women while their men went off to vote at the polls.
- How long you think it'll take, Miss Church, to get an amendment passed?
- How do you get the men to vote for equality when just the sound of the word makes 'em mad?
- You've got to convince them.
- How?
- My husband says woman's place is to raise the children. Nothin' else.
- Three.
- Well, ask him if he wants them to serve in drudgery and have no rights of their own.
- No, no... he ain't likely to stand for that... if he thinks of his own daughters. Not likely.
- And I went south and talked to women in cotton fields, as well as women in clubs and hotels.
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