- You ever read the thirteenth, fourteenth amendments?
- Yes.
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 00:03:26 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- You walking down Cottonwood Street? You're not supposed to.
- It's for 'white folks' only the sign says.
- I hear your old man's going to buy a house on it.
- She won't stop him... 'cause he's right.
- I'm gonna be like him one day. Ain't goin' to be no streets where I can't walk when I get bigger.
- You ever read the thirteenth, fourteenth amendments?
- Yes.
- You know, our folks used to be slaves, but all that stuffs ended. It's dead.
- Ain't no more slavery, so them 'white' signs don't mean a thing.
- The Constitution says everybody's free and equal, and I intend to stick by it like gospel.
- And Tom and I, children of newly freed slaves, would wonder at the world around us.
- And already there was a militant manner in his outlook that I longed to have.
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