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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(Sanscrit, B.C. 300)

Wealth is friends, home, father, brother, title to respect, and fame;

Yea, and wealth is held for wisdom—that it should be so is shame.

(From the “Medea” of Euripides)

(Greek tragic poet, B.C. 431)

Speak not so hastily: the gods themselves

By gifts are swayed, as fame relates; and gold

Hath a far greater influence o’er the souls

Of mortals than the most persuasive words.