What Do You Think This Quote From the Grapes of Wrath Means?
"Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution. Keep those two squatting men apart; make them hate, fear, suspect each other. Here is the anlage of the thing you fear. This is the zygote. For here "I lost my land" is changed; a cell is split and from its splitting grows the thing you hate-"We lost our land." The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely and perplexed as one"
It’s an example of the "divide and conquer" philosophy. To maintain the status quo, keep the people who have been treated unjustly apart. If they get together, it will be like sperm meeting egg; something much bigger than even the two put together will grow. When people who have been wronged unite, they can achieve justice far more easily than any one person can individually.