Sometimes the women welcomed me as I got off the train.
6 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 00:20:32 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- My husband says woman's place is to raise the children. Nothin' else.
- Three.
- Well, ask him if he wants them to serve in drudgery and have no rights of their own.
- No, no... he ain't likely to stand for that... if he thinks of his own daughters. Not likely.
- And I went south and talked to women in cotton fields, as well as women in clubs and hotels.
- And soon my name became known in towns before I reached them.
- Sometimes the women welcomed me as I got off the train.
- Sometimes they came to the train to see that I didn't get off, as they did in Alabama.
- Are you that agitating' woman they sent down here from up north?
- I'm from Memphis and I came to speak about something that concerns us all.
- That's her! That's that woman who's goin' round stirring' up trouble.
- Women! Please listen to me I've got to talk to you.
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