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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... never did such objects demand it . I have traversed the seat of war in the Peninsula , I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces of Turkey ; but never under the most despotic of infidel govern- ments did I behold such squalid ...
... never did such objects demand it . I have traversed the seat of war in the Peninsula , I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces of Turkey ; but never under the most despotic of infidel govern- ments did I behold such squalid ...
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... never say what they think of women ? ' Wise men never say anything else apparently . But , I continued , leaning back in my chair and looking at the vast dome in which I was a single but by now somewhat harassed thought , what is so ...
... never say what they think of women ? ' Wise men never say anything else apparently . But , I continued , leaning back in my chair and looking at the vast dome in which I was a single but by now somewhat harassed thought , what is so ...
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... never heard a slave say so . I never heard a Buckra man say so , till I heard tell of it in England . Such people ought to be ashamed of themselves . They can't do without slaves as well as in England ? No slaves here - no whips - no ...
... never heard a slave say so . I never heard a Buckra man say so , till I heard tell of it in England . Such people ought to be ashamed of themselves . They can't do without slaves as well as in England ? No slaves here - no whips - no ...
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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