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

Book VII: Jesus

“The martyred Christ of the working class, the inspired evangel of the downtrodden masses, the world’s supreme revolutionary leader, whose love for the poor and the children of the poor hallowed all the days of his consecrated life, lighted up and made forever holy the dark tragedy of his death, and gave to the ages his divine inspiration and his deathless name.”—Debs.

Jesus—Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926)

Crusaders—Elizabeth Waddell

Jesus the Revolutionist (From “Christianity and the Social Crisis”)—Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918)

To the “Christians”—Francis W. L. Adams

Life of Jesus—Ernest Renan (1823–92)

From the Gospel According to Luke

A Tramp’s Confession (From “The Cry of Youth”)—Harry Kemp

The Call of the Carpenter—Bouck White (1874–1951)

Lazarus (From the London “Spectator”)—Anonymous

A Parable—James Russell Lowell (1819–91)

From the Gospel According to Matthew

The Easter Children (From “The Frozen Grail and other Poems”)—Elsa Barker