And that 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.
 John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). copy citation

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Author John Steinbeck
Source The Grapes of Wrath
Topic repression history
Date 1939
Language English
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