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“Let them remember. We are rock, Moo, till the stars fall and the seas dry up. They will break against us.”
Taylor Brown, Rednecks
“You ask me, Crock, there’s different Americas. America if you got means or don’t, if you work in a tie or neckerchief, up in the office or down on the killing floor. White or colored, man or woman. Native or not. I reckon there’s Americas they’d drop a bomb on, and ones they wouldn’t even think it.”
Taylor Brown, Rednecks
“We are rock, Moo, till the stars fall and the seas dry up. They will break against us.”
Taylor Brown, Rednecks
“They are a hundred men at first, then two hundred. Five hundred. One thousand. An army of men rising from the earth, clad in blue-bib overalls. They hail from Italy and Poland, the Deep South and Appalachia. One in five is Black. They wear red bandannas knotted around their necks, as if their throats have already been cut. People will call them primitives and hillbillies, anarchists and insurrectionists. They will call them Rednecks.”
Taylor Brown, Rednecks
“In practice, those high ideals made it a nation of deep hypocrisy—a country ever on a knife’s edge, ever failing to live up to its own principles. A nation ever in conflict with itself.”
Taylor Brown, Rednecks
“here was an army of the hollow-eyed and grave—”
Taylor Brown, Rednecks
“They wear red bandannas knotted around their necks, as if their throats have already been cut. People will call them primitives and hillbillies, anarchists and insurrectionists. They will call them Rednecks.”
Taylor Brown, Rednecks
“I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser. –Mother Jones”
Taylor Brown, Rednecks
“His heart was a crazy thing in his chest.”
Taylor Brown, Rednecks