Source: Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang, 1955, pp. 24-32
“Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.”
Source: A Bomb Built in Hell
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“Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 10.

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In response to the interviewer stating: 'What can the U.S. expect from you now?'
1990s, Time magazine interview (1998)

Source: Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs, 2011, p. 10

17th century proverb
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