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I thought I'd like to study in Africa and Asia.

5 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - Peace Mediator classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:14:38 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- And the chairman had gone back to his committee and reported his findings.

- Gentlemen, I've talked to this Ralph Bunche, and it's my belief that we must give him this fellowship to study government... even if it kills him.

(Chord) The committee agrees that they'll make an exception in your case. You've got your fellowship.

- Study whatever kinds of governments you see fit.

- Have you decided how you'd like to start?

- I thought I'd like to study in Africa and Asia.

- The seats of world governments are in Europe, young man.

- Yes, I know, but those seats are resting squarely on colonies. I'd like to see how they manage to hold those seats.

- And how will you go about this?

- By living and working in the colonies for the next five years.

- I've gotten a map of Africa, and I've seen how, from its wide northern top to its southern end, the empires of Europe have carved it into little pieces.

- I'll talk to Africans in the Belgian Congo, the British Sudan, French Morocco, Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish colonies...

- And I'll try to enroll in the University of Capetown, South Africa.

[...]

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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