- Your Carnegie Institute has commissioned me to do a study oil American race relations.
- I've heard of that, too.

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

You can hear this line at 00:18:35 in the radio play.

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- He remembered the years spent in putting his knowledge before the students who passed through his classes...

- But he still had wanted to return to his own way of learning his science... by practice.

- And one day a Swedish scientist had come to him with an offer for a venture.

- I'm Gunnar Myrdal. Sociology is my business.

- I've heard of you, doctor.

- Your Carnegie Institute has commissioned me to do a study oil American race relations.

- I've heard of that, too.

- I believe for an outsider to do such a book, he'd need help... your help.

- I need someone to travel with me. Someone who can be not only a scientist and a guide, but a guinea pig so that I can see clearly the causes and effects of race discrimination.

- I know your job here is secure, and this will be short. But I think it may be worth it.

- He had thought of its worth as he traveled north, west, and south with the Swedish scientist...

- And as the African had learned in Africa, so he learned the feeling of being unfree in his native land.

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You're the one who can make the trumpet talk... and tell the truth.

I believe that once one accepts discrimination against another, he's preparing the way for his own slavery. I intend to remain free.

Listen. They say when a new music's bein' born, you get one kid like this who comes along years ahead of himself. This kid plays tomorrow's music today.

Some of these kids... are just like me. They hear the sound of a trumpet - they never forget it.

Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Quotes 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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