Book VI: Martyrdom. Upton Sinclair, ed. 1915. The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest

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

Essay on Liberty—John Stuart Mill (1806–73)

The Walker—Arturo M. Giovannitti

The Subjection of Women—John Stuart Mill (1806–73)

The Old Suffragist—Margaret Widdemer

The Revolutionist—Ivan Turgénev (1818–83)

Batuschka—Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907)

Breshkovskaya—Elsa Barker

In Siberia—Katherine Breshkovsky (1844–1934)

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist—Alexander Berkman (1870?–1936)

The Seven That Were Hanged—Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919)

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)