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when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And the companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line. And money that might have gone to wages went for gas, for guns, for agents and spies, for blacklists, for drilling. On the highways the people moved like ants and searched for work, for food. And the anger began to ferment.

In the soul of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

He looked in amazement at Tom. "Looking for work?" he said. "So you're lookin' for work. What ya think ever'body else is lookin' for? Di'mands?

Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.