"Here is hard-core unemployment, widespread and chronic; here is a region of shacks and hovels for housing; here are c…"

"She could sometimes stand the pain of it in her stomach when she knew there was nothing to eat, but when Lov stood in…"

"The spring-time ain’t going to let you fool it by hiding away inside a durn cotton mill. It knows you got to stay on …"

"There were always well-developed plans in Jeeter’s mind for the things he intended doing; but somehow he never got ar…"

"It ain't no sin to look like that, Ellie May," Jeeter had told her. "You came into the world that way from God, and t…"

"Jeeter could never think of the loss of his land and goods as anything but a man-made calamity. He sometimes said it …"

"Though it sometimes looks like a rich man will never help the poor; whereas the poor people will give away everything…"

"Preachers has got to preach against something. It wouldn't do them no good to preach for everything. They got to be a…"

"He knew the time for burning and plowing had ended the day before, but there still lingered in the warm March air som…"

"It was still not too late to begin, but Jeeter did not have a mule, and he did not have the credit to purchase seed-c…"