"We aren't asking for cash ransoms; we're asking for food and clothing with a value equipvalent to ten percent of the net worth of each kidnappee. If his personal assets are a million dollars, his family will send us one hundred thousand dollars' worth of food and clothing. They'll be instructed to load it in large trucks or moving vans, which we will allow to enter Manhattan through the Lincoln or Holland tunner. But we haven't yet decided how to get the trucks up to Harlem if the New York Police Department manages to gain control of the midtown area." (S.98)

"And we'll probably have to kill or injure a few people, because whitey's going to fight like hell when he sees his property being destroyed. That's his main concern: his property. You can mess with his wife, but never trepass on his property." (S.112)

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