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

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Crane, Stephen

Stephen Crane

(American novelist and poet, 1870–1900)

“HAVE you ever made a just man?”

“Oh, I have made three,” answered God,

“But two of them are dead,

And the third—

Listen! listen,

And you will hear the thud of his defeat.…”