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!
- They're still waiting out there.
- They won't go away until they're driven away.
- The 'police' won't help us. You know it.
- 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.
- It's better to go outside and 'convince' them than wait and let them take us. My gun, Mary.
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