6 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - Peace Mediator classic radio play.
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- He remembered studying the colonial government that kept eight million people landless, locked in special quarters, barred from the streets and schools, restless and rioting...
- And he sought them out and talked to their teachers and editors, and went with an editor to his hotel...
- Clerk? I'd like air extra room tonight for my guest.
- Is he a Negro?
- The same as I.
- I mean, a native?
- He is.
- The hotels here don't take in native Africans. You'll have to take your friend somewhere else.
- Yes, he remembered that the natives were unfree in their own land.
- He lived in the tribal camps and got to know chieftains, and learned that people everywhere were determined to have freedom and a control over their destinies.
- He saw diamond, copper, and coal mines where thousands of Africans worked for a dollar a month, taxed and landless...
- And understood even better the old urge his own country had once to free itself from the colonial status.
- He put in five years in the colonies of Indonesia, Malaya, and Burma, and wrote in his thesis...
- If ever there is to be peace in the world, the vast majority of mankind who produce the raw material out of Asia and Africa must first be freed and given a proper share of the wealth of their labor.
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