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

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8 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 00:06:50 in the radio play.

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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.

- 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.

- Convince them of what!?

- That slavery's over. My gun.

- Good. Now step aside girl.

- I stepped aside. And though my mother snatched at him, the ex-slave went out to convince his ex-masters that he indeed was free.

- And we huddled in the house and heard shots in the streets, heard the uproar and the rioting, and listened as it died out.

- And when the overdue dawn drove the night off, there was a knock on the door.

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Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Quotes 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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