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If we stay cooped up, they'll swarm around until one gets enough nerve to shoot through the windows, then they'll come at us like hungry dogs.

13 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 00:06:26 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Outside, a mob intent on preserving white supremacy milled about and shouted.

- And through the night as our vigil wore on my father called...

- Mary! Not you, your mother. Mary!

- What is it?

- They're still waiting out there.

- Let them wait.

- They won't go away until they're driven away.

- But the police...

- The 'police' won't help us. You know it.

- If we stay cooped up, they'll swarm around until one gets enough nerve to shoot through the windows, then they'll come at us like hungry dogs.

- Oh, John, why did we move here?

- Because our fathers longed for this freedom even more than we have.

- And by George, no one is gonna to drive us out.

- What are you going to do?

- I'm going to meet them.

- It's better to go outside and 'convince' them than wait and let them take us. My gun, Mary.

[...]

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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