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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.

15 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 00:19:21 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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...

- 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?

[...]

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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