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Tom: Takes
no nerve to do something, ain't nothin' else you can do
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Tom: Sure don't
look none too prosperous.
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Grandpa Joad: It's
my dirt! Eh-heh! No good, but it's - it's mine, all mine.
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Tom Joad: Seems
like the government's got more interest in a dead man than a live
one.
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Casey: I wouldn't
pray just for a old man that's dead, 'cause he's all right. If
I was to pray, I'd pray for folks that's alive and don't know
which way to turn.
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Ma Joad: There,
gramma! There's California.
Gramma: Phbbtt!
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Gasoline Attendant:
You and me got sense. Them Okies got no sense and no feeling.
They ain't human. Human being wouldn't live the way they do. Human
being couldn't stand to be so miserable.
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Tom Joad: If there
was a law, they was workin' with maybe we could take it, but it
ain't the law. They're workin' away our spirits, tryin' to make
us cringe and crawl, takin' away our decency.
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Casey: Tom, you
gotta learn like I'm learnin'. I don't know it right yet myself.
That's why I can't ever be a preacher again. Preachers gotta know.
I don't know. I gotta ask.
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Tom Joad: That Casey.
He might have been a preacher but he seen things clear. He was
like a lantern. He helped me to see things clear.
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Tom Joad: I been
thinking about us, too, about our people living like pigs and
good rich land layin' fallow. Or maybe one guy with a million
acres and a hundred thousand farmers starvin'. And I been wonderin'
if all our folks got together and yelled -
Ma Joad: Tommy, they'd drag you out and cut you down just
like they done to Casey.
Tom: They'd drag me anyways. Sooner or later they'll get
me one way or another. Till then -
Ma: Tommy, you're not aimin' to kill nobody.
Tom: No, Ma, not that. That ain't it. Just, as long as
I'm an outlaw anyways, maybe I can do something, just find out
somethin', just scrounge around and maybe find out what it is
that's wrong and see if they ain't somethin' that can be done
about it. I ain't thought it out that clear, Ma. I can't. I don't
know enough.
Ma: How am I gonna know about ya, Tommy? They could kill
ya and I'd never know. They could hurt ya. How am I gonna know?
Tom: Maybe it's like Casey says. A fellow ain't got a soul
of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul
that belongs to everybody, then -
Ma: Then what, Tom?
Tom: Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark.
I'll be everywhere, wherever you can look. Wherever there's a
fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's
a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys
yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're
hungry and they know supper's ready and where people are eatin'
the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build. I'll
be there, too.
Ma: I don't understand it, Tom.
Tom: Me, neither, Ma, but - just somethin' I been thinkin'
about.
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Casey: Maybe there
ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people
does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and
that's all any man's got a right to say.
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