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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 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

Social justice; Social problems

A king can make a belted knight,
      A marquis, duke, and a' that;
    But an honest man's aboon his might,
      Gude faith, he maunna fa' that!
          For a' that, and a' that,
      Their dignities and a' that,
    The pith o' sense and pride o' worth
      Are higher rank than a' that.

    Then let us pray that come it may,
      (As come it will for a' that)
    That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth,
      May bear the gree and a' that.
          For a' that, and a' that--
      It's coming yet, for a' that,
    When man to man, the warld o'er,
      Shall brithers be for a' that.


BY THOMAS JEFFERSON

(President of the United States and author of the Declaration
of Independence, 1743-1826)

All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The
general spread of the light of science has already laid open to
every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not
been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted
and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of
God.


A Vindication of Natural Society

BY EDMUND BURKE

(British statesman and orator, 1729-1797; defended the American
colonies in Parliament during the Revolutionary War)

Ask of politicians the ends for which laws were originally
designed, and they will answer that the laws were designed as a
protection for the poor and weak, against the oppression of the
rich and powerful. But surely no pretence can be so ridiculous;
a man might as well tell me he has taken off my load, because
he has changed the burden. If the poor man is not able to
support his suit according to the vexatious and expensive
manner established in civilized countries, has not the rich as
great an advantage over him as the strong has over the weak in
a state of nature?...

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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General

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

Social justice; Social problems

A king can make a belted knight,
      A marquis, duke, and a' that;
    But an honest man's aboon his might,
      Gude faith, he maunna fa' that!
          For a' that, and a' that,
      Their dignities and a' that,
    The pith o' sense and pride o' worth
      Are higher rank than a' that.

    Then let us pray that come it may,
      (As come it will for a' that)
    That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth,
      May bear the gree and a' that.
          For a' that, and a' that--
      It's coming yet, for a' that,
    When man to man, the warld o'er,
      Shall brithers be for a' that.


BY THOMAS JEFFERSON

(President of the United States and author of the Declaration
of Independence, 1743-1826)

All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The
general spread of the light of science has already laid open to
every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not
been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted
and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of
God.


A Vindication of Natural Society

BY EDMUND BURKE

(British statesman and orator, 1729-1797; defended the American
colonies in Parliament during the Revolutionary War)

Ask of politicians the ends for which laws were originally
designed, and they will answer that the laws were designed as a
protection for the poor and weak, against the oppression of the
rich and powerful. But surely no pretence can be so ridiculous;
a man might as well tell me he has taken off my load, because
he has changed the burden. If the poor man is not able to
support his suit according to the vexatious and expensive
manner established in civilized countries, has not the rich as
great an advantage over him as the strong has over the weak in
a state of nature?...

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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

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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