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Casy: "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."
Casy: "...Maybe there ain't no sin, there ain't no virtue... It'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..."
Tom Joad: "Seems like the government's got more interest in a dead man than a live one."
Casy: "I wouldn't pray just for an old man that's dead, 'cause he's alright. If I was to pray, I'd pray for folks that's alive and don't know which way to turn."
Man in convertible: "The fact of the matter, Muley, after what them dusters done to the land, the tenant system don't work no more. They don't even break even - much less show a profit. Why, one man and a tractor can handle 12 or 14 of…
Man in convertible: "Now don't go to blamin' me - it ain't my fault!" Muley' son: "Whose fault is it?" Man: "You know who owns the land - the Shawnee Land and Cattle Company." Muley: "And who's the Shawnee Land and Cattle Company?" Man:…
Muley Graves: "I'm right here to tell you, mister, there ain't NOBODY gonna push me off my land! My Grandpa... took up this land 70 years ago! My Pa was born here! We was all born on it! And some of of us... was KILLED on it! (man drives…
Grandpa Joad: "Wait 'til I get to Californee, I'm gonna reach up and - pick me an orange, whenever I want it! Or some grapes, na-na-na now now there's somethin' I ain't never had enough of... I'm gonna get me a whole big bunch 'o grapes -…
Ma Joad (on prison): "...Did they hurt ya son? Did they hurt ya, and make ya mean mad? Tom Joad: "Mad, Ma?" Ma Joad: "Sometimes they do..." Tom Joad: "No, I was at first, but not no more." Ma Joad: "Sometimes they do somethin' to ya. They…
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."
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."