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“The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of [malnutrition] must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. […] In the eyes of the people there is a failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

“No—the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything’s holy—everything, even me.”

“… The great owners, who had become through their holdings both more and less than men, ran to their destruction, and used every means that in the long run would destroy them. Every little means, every violence, every raid on a[n itinerant worker camp], every deputy swaggering through a ragged camp, put off the day a little and cemented the inevitability of the day.”