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

Pleading the Law for pennies and for pounds,

Unlocking their lips never for love of our Lord.

Thou mightest better mete the mist on Malvern hills

Than get a mutter from their mouths—save thou show thy money!

The Agitator

By Isaiah

(Hebrew prophet, B.C. 740)

For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace,

And for Jerusalem’s sake will I not rest,

Until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness,