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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

[...]

- Rose was Jewish. Moved into that restrictive covenant area. Them vigilantes been after him ever since.

- But he was a citizen!

- 'Citizen'... spoken like a schoolboy! So am I, but some citizens around here got more power than others.

- If I printed that, they'd bust up my newspaper in no time.

- Of course, if he hadn't been Jewish... There's sort of a gentlemen's agreement about things like this.

- 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.

[...]

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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