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- They're still waiting out there.
- Let them wait.
- They won't go away until they're driven away.

7 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 00:06:18 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I stood aside as the movers piled furniture into our house on the forbidden street.

- That night my father kept a restless watch.

- 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.

[...]

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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