Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


She was in full sympathy with him. In her heart of hearts the
forty acres tugged much the harder. In her way, allowing for the
difference of a generation, her desire for spaciousness was as
strong as her Uncle Will's.


"Well, we're not going to stop here," she assured Billy. "We're
going in, not for forty acres, but for a hundred and sixty acres
free from the government."


"An' I guess the government owes it to us for what our fathers
an' mothers done. I tell you, Saxon, when a woman walks across
the plains like your mother done, an' a man an' wife gets
massacred by the Indians like my grandfather an' mother done, the
government does owe them something."

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