ADDIE. Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.
[From The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman]
(Then later in the play)
ALEXANDRA. All in one day: Addie said there were people who ate the earth and other people who stood around and watched them do it. And just now, Uncle Ben said the same thing. Really, he said the same thing. Well, tell him for me, Mama, I'm not going to stand around and watch you do it. Tell him I'll be fighting as hard as he'll be fighting...some place where people don't just stand around and watch.
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