Dust bowl photos by Dorthea Lang

 


“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath




“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.”― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath


“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.”― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath






“...and in the eyes of the people there is the 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.”― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath