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:

    “How clean the sun when seen in its idea,
    Washed in the remotest cleanliness of a heaven
    That has expelled us and our images . . .
    The death of one god is the death of all.
    Let purple Phoebus lie in umber harvest,
    Let Phoebus slumber and die in autumn umber....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The best laid schemes o’ mice and men Gang aft agley;
    An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy!”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)