“We shore taken a beatin’.”

Pa Joad.

“That’s what makes us tough. Rich fellas come up, they die, 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. We’ll go on forever. We’re the people.”

Ma Joad

From the final scene of the film, “The Grapes of Wrath,” 1940.

Source: Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, based on the novel by John Steinbeck

“The Great Depression like most other periods of severe unemployment was produced by government mismanagement, rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”

Milton Friedman

American Economist, (1912 – 2006)

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