My friends you want a speech, but I cannot make one at this time. I must have opportunity to think. Undue importance might be give...n to what I said. However, there is one thing I will do. You have a band with you. There's one piece of music I've always liked. Heretofore, it hasn't seemed the proper thing to use it in the North. But now by virtue of my prerogative as President and Commander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy, I declare it contraband of war and our lawful prize. I ask the band to play "Dixie."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Al: Ain't you gonna look back, Ma? Give the old place a last look? Ma Joad: We're goin' to California, ain't we? Alright then..., let's go to California. Al: That don't sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before. Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. I never had to lose everything I had in life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wouldn't pray just for a old man that's dead because he's all right. If I was to pray, I'd pray for the folks that's alive and d...on't know which way to turn. Grampa here, he ain't got no more trouble like that. He's got his job all cut out for him. So cover him up and let him get to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't give a hoot in a hollow if there's oranges and grapes a-crowdin' us out of bed, I ain't goin' to California! This is my co...untry and I belong here. This is my dirt. It's no good, but it's mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scared, huh. I ain't never gonna be scared no more. I was though. For a while it looked as though we was beat, good and beat. Look...ed like we didn't have nobody in the whole wide world but enemies. Like nobody was friendly no more. Made me feel kind a bad and scared too. Like we was lost and nobody cared.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know. That's what makes us tough. Rich fellows come up and they die. Their kids ain't no good and they die out. But we keepa com...in'. 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rich fellas come up and they die, and their kids ain't no good, and 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. And we'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man. A man lives, sort of, well, in jerks. A baby's born or somebody dies and that's a ...jerk. He gets a farm or loses it and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream. Little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »