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 years

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By Stephen Crane

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“Have you ever made a just man?”

“Oh, I have made three,” answered God,

“But two of them are dead,

And the third—

Listen! listen,

And you will hear the thud of his defeat....”