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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Ye good, ye rich, ye wise,

And let the busy world spin round

While ye shut your idle eyes;

And your judges shall have work,

And your lawyers wag the tongue,

And the jailers and policemen

Shall be fathers to the young!“

A Modest Proposal

By Jonathan Swift