The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the Writings of Philosophers, Poets, Novelists, Social Reformers, and Others who Have Voiced the Struggle Against Social Injustice, Selected from Twenty-five Languages, Covering a Period of Five Thousand YearsUpton Sinclair Presents American author Upton Sinclair's selection of works of literature that portray American progressivism and reflect struggles against social injustice. Included are essays, stories, plays, and poems by such writers as Sinclair himself, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Zola, Kipling, Whitman, Shaw, Chesterton, Masefield, Galsworthy, London, Norris, Carlyle, Wilde, and many more. |
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... seemed most vital ; and I have sought to test the writers of my own time by the touchstone of the old standards . The size of the task I did not realize until I had gone too far to retreat . It meant not merely the rereading of the ...
... seemed most vital ; and I have sought to test the writers of my own time by the touchstone of the old standards . The size of the task I did not realize until I had gone too far to retreat . It meant not merely the rereading of the ...
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... seemed an age . He clutched and hacked at ropes , at rags of sail , Thinking that comfort was a fairy - tale Told long ago - long , long ago - long since Heard of in other lives - imagined , dreamed- There where the basest beggar was a ...
... seemed an age . He clutched and hacked at ropes , at rags of sail , Thinking that comfort was a fairy - tale Told long ago - long , long ago - long since Heard of in other lives - imagined , dreamed- There where the basest beggar was a ...
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... seemed as if his inwards must be torn into shreds . A man could get used to the fertilizer - mill , the boss had said , if he would only make up his mind to it ; but Jurgis now began to see that it was a question of making up his ...
... seemed as if his inwards must be torn into shreds . A man could get used to the fertilizer - mill , the boss had said , if he would only make up his mind to it ; but Jurgis now began to see that it was a question of making up his ...
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... seemed to be to cast jealous looks at each other , and defend themselves from the coarse overtures of their swains . Lancelot had been already perfectly astonished at the foulness of language which prevailed ; and the utter absence of ...
... seemed to be to cast jealous looks at each other , and defend themselves from the coarse overtures of their swains . Lancelot had been already perfectly astonished at the foulness of language which prevailed ; and the utter absence of ...
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... . Anything so pitiful and miserable I had never seen before . There was no sign of underclothing between his trousers and the vest . And I don't know why , but it seemed almost as if this was what hurt me most - The Chasm 109.
... . Anything so pitiful and miserable I had never seen before . There was no sign of underclothing between his trousers and the vest . And I don't know why , but it seemed almost as if this was what hurt me most - The Chasm 109.
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Page 358 - King say unto them on his right hand, come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I •was a hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Page 438 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 233 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Page 751 - LOST LEADER Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed : How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags, — were they purple, his heart had been proud...
Page 604 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn: Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Page 772 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 771 - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Page 838 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 773 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant,
Page 228 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.