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we'd be ashamed if everybody else's
children wasn't the same. 152
I can't help that. I got my orders.
They told me to tell you to get off. 153
- That's what I'm tellin' you.
- You mean get off my own land? 154
- Don't go to blaming me. It ain't my fault.
- Whose fault is it? 155
You know who owns the land.
Shawnee Land and Cattle Company. 156
- Who's Shawnee Land and Cattle Company?
- Nobody. It's a company. 157
They got a president. They got
somebody who knows what a shotgun's for! 158
Oh, son, it ain't his fault
because the bank tells him what to do. 159
- All right. Where's the bank?
- Tulsa. What's the use of picking on him? 160
He ain't nothing but the manager. He's half
crazy trying to keep up with his orders. 161
- Then who do we shoot?
- Brother, I don't know. 162
If I did, I'd tell you.
I just don't know who's to blame. 163
I'm right here to tell you, mister: There ain't
nobody gonna push me off my land! 164
My grandpa took up this land 70 years ago! 165
My pa was born here. We was all born on it!
And some of us was killed on it! 166
And some of us... died on it. 167
That's what makes it our'n. 168
Being born on it, 169
and workin' on it... 170
and dying... dying on it! 171
And not no piece of paper with writing on it... 172
Well, what happened? 173
They come. They come and pushed me off. 174
- They come with the cats.
- The what? 175
The cats, the caterpillar tractors. 176
And for every one of 'em, there was ten,
15 families thrown right out of their homes. 177
100 folks. And no place to live
but on the road. 178
The Rances, the Peterses,
the Perrys, the Joadses... 179
One right after the other, they got thrown out. 180
Half the folks you and me know
thrown right out into the road. 181
The one that got me come about a month ago. 182
Go on back! 183
Go on back! I'm warning you! Go on back! 184
You come any closer
and I'm gonna blow you right out of that cat! 185
I told you! 186
- You're Joe Davis' boy.
- I don't like for nobody to draw a bead on me. 187
Then what are you doing this for?
Against your own people. 188
Three dollars a day,
that's what I'm doing it for. 189
I got two little kids at home. My wife.
My wife's mother. Them folks gotta eat. 190
First and only, I think about my folks.
What happens to others is their own lookout. 191
Yeah, but you don't understand, son.
This is my land! 192
Used to be. It's the company's now. 193
Have it your own way, son. Butjust as sure
as you touch my house with that cat, 194
I'm gonna blow you plumb to kingdom come! 195
You ain't gonna blow nobody nowhere!
First place, they'd hang you and you know it. 196
It wouldn't be two days before
they'd send a guy to take my place. 197
Now go on! Get outta the way! 198
What was the use? He was right. 199
There wasn't a thing in the worid
I could do about it. 200
It's just... it don't seem possible
just getting throwed off like that. | 
