Gang Members Quotes in The Warriors (1979)

[At the big conclave/street gang meeting, Cyrus, the boss of the street gang appears]

Cyrus: [yelling] Can you count, suckers? I say, the future is ours... if you can count!

[a couple of soldiers cheer for Cyrus]

Cyrus: Now, look what we have here before us. We got the Saracens sitting next to the Jones Street Boys. We've got the Moonrunners right by the Van Cortlandt Rangers. Nobody is wasting nobody. That... is a miracle. And miracles is the way things ought to be.

[Few more soldiers cheering for Cyrus]

Cyrus: You're standing right now with nine delegates from 100 gangs. And there's over a hundred more. That's 20,000 hardcore members. Forty-thousand, counting affiliates, and twenty-thousand more, not organized, but ready to fight: 60,000 soldiers! Now, there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town. Can you dig it?

Gang Members: Yeah.

Cyrus: Can you dig it?

Gang Members: Yeah!

Cyrus: Can you dig it?

Gang Members: YEAH!

[shouting and Cheering]

Cyrus: Now, here's the sum total: One gang could run this city! One gang. Nothing would move without us allowing it to happen. We could tax the crime syndicates, the police, because WE got the streets, suckers! Can you dig it?

Gang Members: YEAH!

[shouting and Cheering]