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- Thousand dollars!
- Yes, the citizens of Los Angeles have collected a thousand dollars for you to further you studies in... er... political science!

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

You can hear this line at 00:11:16 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- And when the criminals were caught, he remembered the mayor had asked to see the Bunche boy.

- Er, this is the Bunche kid that turned in those hoodlums, your honor. That's right, your honor.

- Says he's not really a newspaperman, but wants to study politics at Harvard.

- I told him it'd be better to study in the first ward, in my precinct, but he's hard-headed.

- Is that right, young man? I'm disappointed, but I suppose you can use this thousand dollars even there.

- Thousand dollars!

- Yes, the citizens of Los Angeles have collected a thousand dollars for you to further you studies in... er... political science!

- I don't see why you're studying government. You'd make a good...

- Precinct captain, your honor. One of the best. My ward needs one.

- He remembered how he turned down the precinct captain's job...

- And didn't tell the mayor how the newspaper job had made him more certain that he had to learn why there was one rule for the majority and another for the minority.

- He knew he could make his politics a science even if the mayor didn't believe him...

- Or the Harvard professors who gathered after he had finished the course, to decide whether he should have funds to go further.

[...]

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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