Steinbeck: "Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there." Just sayin'

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7533841-then-it-don-t-matter-i-ll-be-all-around-in-the
“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 when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too. - Tom Joad”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath


P.S. (from Wiki) : "In September 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Steinbeck the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[39] .... J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI at the time, could find no basis for prosecuting Steinbeck and therefore used his power to encourage the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to audit Steinbeck's taxes every single year of his life, just to annoy him."

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