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 John C. Winston Company, 1915 - 891 páginas 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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... death drank soddenly on their one free day ; that these girls , starved of opportunities for womanliness , of which they could make as much as the finest lady , sometimes woke after a holiday to wish that they might wake no more ...
... death drank soddenly on their one free day ; that these girls , starved of opportunities for womanliness , of which they could make as much as the finest lady , sometimes woke after a holiday to wish that they might wake no more ...
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... onslaught from the weather side , A withering rush of death , a frost that cried , Shrieked , till he withered at the heart ; a hail Plastered his oilskins with an icy mail . • " Up ! " yelled the Bosun ; " up 36 The Cry for Justice.
... onslaught from the weather side , A withering rush of death , a frost that cried , Shrieked , till he withered at the heart ; a hail Plastered his oilskins with an icy mail . • " Up ! " yelled the Bosun ; " up 36 The Cry for Justice.
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... Death . Yet somewhere , Lord , Thine open seas are singing with the rain , And somewhere underneath Thy stars the cool waves crash and beat ; Why is it here , and only here , are huddled Death and Pain , And here the form of Horror ...
... Death . Yet somewhere , Lord , Thine open seas are singing with the rain , And somewhere underneath Thy stars the cool waves crash and beat ; Why is it here , and only here , are huddled Death and Pain , And here the form of Horror ...
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... Death are kissed , And here is packed , one Summer night , a whole world's fiery pain ! A Department - Store Clerk ( From " The House of Bondage " ) BY REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN ( American novelist , born 1877 ) ATIE FLANAGAN arrived at ...
... Death are kissed , And here is packed , one Summer night , a whole world's fiery pain ! A Department - Store Clerk ( From " The House of Bondage " ) BY REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN ( American novelist , born 1877 ) ATIE FLANAGAN arrived at ...
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... Death Watch . If Katie was late , she was fined ten cents for each offense . She was reprimanded if her portion of the counter was disordered after a mauling by careless cus- tomers . She was fined for all mistakes she made in the ...
... Death Watch . If Katie was late , she was fined ten cents for each offense . She was reprimanded if her portion of the counter was disordered after a mauling by careless cus- tomers . She was fined for all mistakes she made in the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
American poet asked beasts beauty blood born bread called CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN Church clothes cold cried dark dead death door dream earth EDWARD CARPENTER English poet eyes face father fear feet FREDERIK VAN EEDEN GEORGE STERLING give gold hand head hear heart Heaven hell human hunger JACK LONDON JAMES OPPENHEIM justice king knew labor land LEO TOLSTOY liberty live look Lord LOUIS UNTERMEYER mankind MAXIM GORKY misery mother never night novelist once PATRICK MACGILL peace peasant PETER KROPOTKIN poor poverty priest prison REGINALD WRIGHT rich shame singing slaves social Socialist society song soul starving street struggle suffer tell thee things thou thought thousand tion toil turned unto UPTON SINCLAIR VACHEL LINDSAY voice walk wealth woman women words workers young
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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,
Página 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.