“And in the south he saw the golden oranges hanging on the trees, the little golden oranges on the dark green trees; and guards with shotguns patrolling the lines so a man might not pick an orange for a thin child, oranges to be dumped if the price was low. . . .”

—John Steinbeck, from his novel of the depression, The Grapes of Wrath; quoted in A People’s History of the United States; 1492-Present by Howard Zinn, 1999.