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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? — No — no, ‘tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking.

Don't want no riot
but me slim
too slim
fi go 'pon more diet
can't keep quet
O Lord I've got to speak out
don't want no violence
but man too hungry
fi make nice
much less fe keep silent!

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My neighbors were angry with my mother, because she fed hungry men at the back door. They said it would bring others, and then what would she do? She said, “I’ll feed them till the food runs out.” It wasn’t until years later, I realized the fear people had of these men. We didn’t have it in our house.

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