S. E. Hinton - Gang Quotes

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You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.

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What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley?...No, another social outcast!

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We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.

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We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.

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