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

“God save the Tsar!”

Father they called him from of old—

Batuschka!... How his heart is cold!

Wait till a million scourgèd men

Rise in their awful might, and then—

“God save the Tsar!”

Breshkovskaya

By Elsa Barker

(Contemporary American poet and novelist. Catherine Breshkovsky, called “Little Mother” by the Russian peasants, was sentenced to a long term of exile in Siberia when seventy-seven years of age)

How narrow seems the round of ladies’ lives