Explain what was so powerful about these moments in the play

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Question: "Every time I got on a train down south I wasn't sure if I was coming back. There was no welcome mat for Negro lawyers... In southern cities I'd sit in the back of streetcars - quiet as a mouse; and I'd eat in colored cafes" (Stevens 17).

"Brothers and Sisters, this is 1952 - three hundred years since we were brought here on slave ships. Nearly a hundred years since the Emancipation Proclamation. Do you want to wait forever? If we don't challenge segregation head-on we will continue to get the same thing we've been getting - separate but unequal ..." (Stevens 22).

Comment on the above quotes. Explain what was so powerful about these moments in the play.

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