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Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968). The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.

Book VI: Martyrdom

Messages and records of the heroes of past and present who have sacrificed themselves for the sake of the future.
Social Ideals—Vida D. Scudder
Le Père Perdrix—Charles-Louis Philippe
The Duty of Civil Disobedience—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62)
Address to the Jury—Arturo M. Giovannitti
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
Essay on Liberty—John Stuart Mill (1806–73)
From the Epistle of James
The Walker—Arturo M. Giovannitti
George Washington (1732–99)
Forcible Feeding (From “The Suffragette”)—E. Sylvia Pankhurst
The Subjection of Women—John Stuart Mill (1806–73)
The Old Suffragist—Margaret Widdemer
Going to the People (From “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”)—Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921)
The Revolutionist—Ivan Turgénev (1818–83)
In a Russian Prison (From “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”)—Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921)
Batuschka—Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907)
Breshkovskaya—Elsa Barker
In Siberia—Katherine Breshkovsky (1844–1934)
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist—Alexander Berkman (1870?–1936)
Frederic Harrison (1831–1923)
The Seven That Were Hanged—Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919)
A Woman’s Execution—Edward King
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
These Shifting Scenes—Charles Edward Russell (1860–1941)
The Eagle that is Forgotten—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)
Immortality—Francisco Ferrer (1859–1909)
Light Upon Waldheim—Voltairine De Cleyre
Assassination—Auguste Vaillant
Beyond Human Might—Björnstjerne Björnson (1832–1910)
Chillon—Lord Byron (1788–1824)