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

Book XII: Country

The higher patriotism; the duty of man to his country as seen from the point of view of those who would make the country the parent and friend of all who dwell in it.

Our Country (Read July 4, 1883)—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–92)

The New Freedom—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

An Ode in Time of Hesitation—William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910)

The Price of Liberty—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

To the Goddess of Liberty (New York Harbor)—George Sterling

To the United States Senate—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

The Duty of Civil Disobedience—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62)

A Prophecy (Written during the Revolutionary War)—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

An Election Campaign in New York (From “The House of Bondage”)—Reginald Wright Kauffman

The Doom of Empires—Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–99)

The Statue of Liberty (New York Harbor, A.D. 2900)—Arthur Upson

Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

Daniel Webster (1782–1852)

The Deserted Village—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)

England in 1819—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

The Victorian Age—Edward Carpenter (1844–1929)

Coronation Day (From “The People of the Abyss”)—Jack London (1876–1916)

The Wrongfulness of Riches—Grant Allen

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

The True Imperialism—William Watson (1858–1935)

Letters from a Chinese Official—G. Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932)

Utopia—Sir Thomas More (1478–1535)

Tales of Two Countries—Maxim Gorky (1868–1936)

The Rights of Man—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

Otto von Bismarck (1815–98)

The Demand of Labor—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65)

Bryanism (From the New York “Tribune”)—Anonymous

Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–64)

The Rough Rider—Bliss Carman (1861–1929)

William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98)

The Bad Shepherds—Octave Mirbeau

The Cultured Classes—Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814)

The Duty of Civil Disobedience—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)

The Happiness of Nations—James Mackaye

Paris—Émile Zola (1840–1902)

Farewell Address—George Washington (1732–99)

America the Beautiful—Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929)

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