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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The Rebel

By Hilaire Belloc

(English historian and poet, born 1871; resigned from parliament to conduct a campaign against the control of England’s political machinery by vested wealth)

There is a wall of which the stones

Are lies and bribes and dead men’s bones.

And wrongfully this evil wall

Denies what all men made for all,

And shamelessly this wall surrounds

Our homestead and our native grounds.