- I know, but we've got to get to white women and Negro women in the South. Get to them, and somehow get them together.
- I'll get to them.

10 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 00:19:02 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Without this fight, it may take a hundred years before women will cast ballots in America.

- I've thought of that.

- Will you go?

- Where shall I start?

- Start where the message is needed most.

- That's in the South. It's harder to get women to listen, there.

- I know, but we've got to get to white women and Negro women in the South. Get to them, and somehow get them together.

- I'll get to them.

- I took up the fight for women's suffrage and traveled south and spoke days and nights before women gathered in homes and halls.

- I spoke of the simple desire every woman had for dignity and strength and the same human recognition for their merit and talent that greeted men, some men.

- 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?

- If enough women from this state join the association and get their men to vote for the amendment first...

[...]

Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Destination Freedom Radio ShowQuotes with audio clips from Richard Durham's Destination Freedom old-time radio program, Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-1950.

Actors: Oscar Brown Jr., Studs Terkel, Janice Kingslow, Wezlyn Tilden

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