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

by Unknown

With its challenge to task-master villainous day

And infamous night,

With its threat to the robber rich, the proud,

The respectable free.

And I laughed and shouted to them aloud,

And they shouted to me!

“Girls, that’s the shout, the shout we will utter

When, with rifles and spades,

We stand, with the old Red Flag aflutter,

On the barricades!”