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

Hear me, my warriors; my heart is sick and sad;

Our chiefs are killed,

The old men are all dead,

It is cold and we have no blankets;

The little children are freezing to death.

Hear me, my warriors; my heart is sick and sad;

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever!

A Project for a Perpetual Peace

By Jean Jacques Rousseau

(A document published 1756 in which the French philosopher outlined in detail a plan for a European federation, which seems in 1915 to have become the next step in civilization)