Now see here, kid, you're valedictorian of your high school, but that don't mean a thing on newspaper row.

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

You can hear this line at 00:07:26 in the radio play.

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- Someone whose personal experience fits him for the job of peacemaker.

- We hope you'll think it over. There's not much time.

- When you have decided, phone me at headquarters. I'll relay the message... You have eight hours to decide.

- He walked on through the Jerusalem streets probing the hidden pockets of his mind.

- And he thought of a day twenty-eight years back when, as a valedictorian of a Los Angeles high school, he came into a newspaper office and got his instructions from his first boss.

- Now see here, kid, you're valedictorian of your high school, but that don't mean a thing on newspaper row.

- I'm not exactly going to be a newspaperman.

- I know. You got some fool notion about studying government and political science.

- There's about as much chance of a colored kid 'round here doing anything with that as there is for you to... say... discover the biggest scoop of the year.

- I've heard you say that before.

- I'll say it again for your own good.

- Political science in school's one thing... in the wide world it's another.

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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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