You keep your mouth shut about their names. You're colored. They'll get you next.
6 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - Peace Mediator classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:10:25 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- If I printed that, they'd bust up my newspaper in no time.
- Not enough people to protect me if I fought the vigilantes.
- You keep your mouth shut about their names. You're colored. They'll get you next.
- An' there's nothin' in your political science that says you can prove a thing.
- He remembered how loud his heart had beat then and how it thundered when he told a police sergeant.
- Murder, huh? Casey, you hear this? Suppose we do a little investigating'.
- And the investigation had gone on, and somehow there had been enough people to protect him...
- And when the criminals were caught, he remembered the mayor had asked to see the Bunche boy.
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