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

And oft-times in the open street.

Let’s not have war till we can make,

Of this sweet life we lose or take,

Some kind of pudding of man’s gore;

So that the clergy in each parish

May save the lives of those that famish

Because meat’s dear and times are poor.

In Praise of the Warrior

(From “Don Quixote”)