| The reading of this humanist Holy Book cannot fail to serve the needs of groping, yearning humans who seek to discern truth and justice amid the dazzle and murk of the thought-chaos of the present-day world |
| —Introduction |
| Jack London |
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
Edited by Upton Sinclair
These 665 annotated entries show American Progressivism at its heyday. Sinclair’s bold scope of selection highlights a strain of the human spirit from the Ancients that is undying.
Bibliographic Record Editor Preface Introduction
Contents
PHILADELPHIA: THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO., 1915
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010
- Book I: Toil
- Book II: The Chasm
- Book III: The Outcast
- Book IV: Out of the Depths
- Book V: Revolt
- Book VI: Martyrdom
- Book VII: Jesus
- Book VIII: The Church
- Book IX: The Voice of the Ages
- Book X: Mammon
- Book XI: War
- Book XII: Country
- Book XIII: Children
- Book XIV: Humor
- Book XV: The Poet
- Book XVI: Socialism
- Book XVII: The New Day