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 64
... thousand of us here In this little part of the city . We are five thousand . I wonder how many we are in all In the cities and in the whole country ? Here alone are ten thousand hands which plant seeds and make the factories run . How ...
... thousand of us here In this little part of the city . We are five thousand . I wonder how many we are in all In the cities and in the whole country ? Here alone are ten thousand hands which plant seeds and make the factories run . How ...
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... thousand new tents . IO Don't curse heaven If it abandons you , Don't curse circumstances . God gives victory to whom He wishes . God is not a blacksmith to beat swords . II It's painful to listen to the news in the morning . It's ...
... thousand new tents . IO Don't curse heaven If it abandons you , Don't curse circumstances . God gives victory to whom He wishes . God is not a blacksmith to beat swords . II It's painful to listen to the news in the morning . It's ...
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... thousand souls , of which above fifty or sixty thousand are already perished , and more daily perish . All these Massacres were committed within the space of fourteen years . There may be now remaining in the Province of Nicaraqua ...
... thousand souls , of which above fifty or sixty thousand are already perished , and more daily perish . All these Massacres were committed within the space of fourteen years . There may be now remaining in the Province of Nicaraqua ...
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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