John Steinbeck would have been 109 today

[pokerfan]

and I know which side he'd be on in Wisconsin...

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(February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)

Uncle John slupped his coffee. Pa said, "Well, they dropped the price like you said. An' they was a whole slew a new pickers so goddamn hungry they'd pick for a loaf a bread. Go for a peach, an' somebody'd get it first. Gonna get the whole crop picked right off. Fellas runnin' to a new tree. I seen fights—one fella claims it's his tree, 'nother fella wants to pick off'n it. Brang these here folks from as far's El Centro. Hungrier'n hell. Work all day for a piece a bread. I says to the checker, 'We can't work for two an' a half cents a box,' an' he says, 'Go on, then, quit. These fellas can.' I says, 'Soon's they get fed up they won't.' An' he says, 'Hell, we'll have these here peaches in 'fore they get fed up.'" (The Grapes of Wrath won the Pulitzer in 1940)

[fishwax]

1. "Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yer4L1Uhayc

:kick:

[no_hypocrisy]

2. 'Cause we're the people.

Ma Joad: Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.

[Starry Messenger]

3. k&r