Purple Gang

Purple Gang can refer to:

  • The Purple Gang, Jewish American bootleggers and hijackers in the 1920s
  • The Purple Gang (band), British rock band active intermittently since the 1960s
  • East Harlem Purple Gang, Italian American gang of drug dealers and hitmen
  • Purple People Eaters, defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings from the late 1960s to the late 1970s

Famous quotes containing the words purple and/or gang:

    “Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
    It fell upon a little western flower,
    Before, milk-white; now purple with love’s wound:
    And maidens call it “love-in-idleness.””
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)