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:

    “I never saw a Purple Cow,
    I never hope to see one;”
    —Gelett Burgess (1866–1951)

    “What lies behind facts like these: that so recently one could not have said Scott was not perfect without earning at least sorrowful disapproval; that a year after the Gang of Four were perfect, they were villains; that in the fifties in the United States a nothing-man called McCarthy was able to intimidate and terrorise sane and sensible people, but that in the sixties young people summoned before similar committees simply laughed.”
    —Doris Lessing (b. 1919)