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“See all my old friends!' His eyes wandered over the group, but no one showed signs of being glad to see him.”“I come all the way over here to introduce my friends, R.W. and Melvin, to y'all and y'all actin' like y'all ain't got no manners at all. ‘they been mighty fine friends to me. Better than any of y'all. Look, see here what they give me.' Proudly he tugged at the suit coat. ‘Pretty nice stuff, eh! Everything I want they give me 'cause they really likes me.”

pg 149 online

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"A long white wooden building looming in the distance.Behind the building was a wide sports field around which were scattered rows of tiered gray-looking benches.In front of it were two yellow buses,our own tormentor and on that brought students from the other direction,and loitering students awaiting the knell of the morning bell.In the very center of the expansive front lawn,waving red,white,and blue with the emblem of the Confederacy emblazoned in it’s upper left-hand corner,was the Mississippi flag.Directly below it was the American flag”

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Then ... then Jack reared up, scared by the shot, and I - I couldn't hold him ... and ... and the wagon rolled over Papa's leg.' His voice cracked sharply, and he exploded guiltily, 'It's m-my fault his leg's busted!'
Ch. 9, pg. 133 (online)

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"'Just get Papa and Mr. Morrison 'fore they - 'fore they hurt them some more.' He placed the unlit flashlight in my hand and pushed me up. Clutching Little Man's hand, I told him to grab Christopher-John's, and together the three of us picked our way along the black path, afraid to turn on the flashlight for fear of its light being seen."
Ch. 11, pg. 160

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"I studied T.J. closely under the light, sure that he was pulling another fast one. But then he coughed, and blood spurted from his mouth."
Ch.  11, pg. 155

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"The night whispered of distant thunder. It was muggy, hot, a miserable night for sleeping. Twice I had awakened hoping that it was time to be up, but each time the night had been total blackness with no hint of graying dawn."
Ch. 11, pg. 151

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"But once out of the car, he stood very still surveying the scene: then he stared at each of the men as if preparing to charge them in the courtroom and said softly, 'Y'all decide to hold court out here tonight!'"
Ch. 11, pg. 158 (online)

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"T.J. looked up in the bright light, 'Help me, Stacey. Help me get home...I can't make it by myself.'"
Ch. 11, pg. 153

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"T.J. looked up in the bright light, 'Help me, Stacey. Help me get home...I can't make it by myself.'"
Ch. 11, pg. 153

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"Seven families, including ours, still refuse to shop at the Wallace store, even with the threat of the chain gang."
Ch. 9, pg. 128 (online)

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"Seven families, including ours, still refuse to shop at the Wallace store, even with the threat of the chain gang."
Ch. 9, pg. 128 (online)

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"'Well, I just think you're spoiling those children, Mary. They've got to learn how things are sometimes.' 'Maybe,so,' said Mama, 'but that doesn't mean they have to accept them...and maybe we don't either."
Ch. 1, pg. 18 (online)

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"He's got a need to show us where we stand in the scheme of things. He's got a powerful need to do that."
Ch. 10, pg. 145 (online)

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"The Wallaces did that, children. The poured kerosene over Mr. Berry and his nephews and lit them afire."
Ch. 4, pg. 60

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"When T.J. objected and said that he was going to tell everybody it was R.W. and Melvin who had hurt the Barnetts unless they took him home, the two of them lit into him, beating him with savage blows until he could not stand."
Ch. 11, pg. 154

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"Stacey had felt a responsibility for T.J. I had never really understood why. Perhaps he felt that even a person as despicable as T.J. needed someone he could call 'friend', or perhaps she sensed T.J. vulnerability better then T.J. did himself."
Ch. 11, pg. 155 (online)

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"Roll of Thunder, hear my cry
over the water, bye and bye
Ole man comin' down the line
Whip in hand to beat me down
but I aint gonna let him Turn me around."
Ch. 11, pg. 151 (online)

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Papa looked down at me and brought me closer, then waved his hand toward the drive. "You see that fig tree over yonder, Cassie! Them other trees all around...that oak and walnut, they're a lot bigger and they take up more more and give so mush shade they almost overshadow that little ole fig. But that fig tree's got roots that run deep, and it belongs in that yard as much as that oak and walnut...There's a lesson to be learn from that little tree. We keep doing what we gotta and we don't give up. We can't."
Ch. 9, pg. 126 (online)

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"But that fig tree's got roots that run deep and it belongs in that yard as mush as that oak and walnut...Just keeps on growing and doing what it gotta do. It don't give up. It give up, it'll die...We keep doing what we gotta do, and we don't give up. We can't."
Ch. 9, pg. 126 (online)

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