The Chatto Book of DissentMichael Rosen, David Widgery This is an anthology of verbal protest, whether avowedly political or quietly subversive, against war, racism, slavery, chauvinism, censorship, injustice and oppression in all their guises. It ranges in place and time from the Ancient Egyptian Satire of the Trades to Vaclav Havel's Memorandum, in form from Chaucerian verse to Parisian graffiti, and embraces protest songs, radio broadcasts, the text of seditious posters and the transcripts of trials; Charlotte Bronte and Lenny Bruce, Aesop and Aborigines. |
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Page 127
... better than slaves . When wages have been thus reduced to a very small sum , working people can no longer maintain their children as all good and respectable people wish to maintain their children , but are compelled to neglect them ...
... better than slaves . When wages have been thus reduced to a very small sum , working people can no longer maintain their children as all good and respectable people wish to maintain their children , but are compelled to neglect them ...
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... better or been better than I ? I speak of others as well as for myself , for the very great majority , nearly all the real undisguised prostitutes in London , spring from my class , and are made by and under pretty much such conditions ...
... better or been better than I ? I speak of others as well as for myself , for the very great majority , nearly all the real undisguised prostitutes in London , spring from my class , and are made by and under pretty much such conditions ...
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... better of them , in order that they may not get the better of them ; and they say , that dishonesty is shameful and unjust ; meaning , by the word injustice , the desire of a man to have more than his neighbours ; for knowing their own ...
... better of them , in order that they may not get the better of them ; and they say , that dishonesty is shameful and unjust ; meaning , by the word injustice , the desire of a man to have more than his neighbours ; for knowing their own ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Words Must be Given their True Meaning | 75 |
Opulence is always the Result of Theft | 173 |
Copyright | |
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American Anon arms believe BESSIE better Birdbrain Bishop of Hereford blood Church colliery Communist cops to dinner DADA dead death Democracy Wall dissent Doc Daneeka E. M. Forster earth enemy England English Eulespiegle Excerpt eyes face father feel fight Flann O'Brien force freedom friends FRONDOSO fucking Fuente Ovejuna girl give hands head heart human Ilda jail JUDGE killed King labour land laugh Lenny Bruce liberty live look Lords Lubec Mary means MENGO Menocchio mind Miss America mother murder nation never night O-Level oppressed pigs police political poor priest prison Ptydepe reprinted by permission rich SCUM slavery slaves society soldiers Spartacus speak talk tell there's things thou thought thousand William Cobbett woman women word workers Yossarian
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The PSHCE Co-Ordinator's Handbook: For Key Stages One to Four Colin Noble,Graham Hofmann No preview available - 2002 |