Justice
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8.Oppression of the weak and poor by the powerful
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 229–232The king is to judge the poor with righteousness, deliver the needy and break the oppressor.read · scan
Ecclesiastes; or, The PreacherVol. 44
- p. 340–341Do not marvel at oppression of the poor; a higher one watches over the high.read · scan
Traditional BalladsVol. 40
- p. 129–131Robin's rule of robbery: spare honest husbandmen and good yeomen, but rob bishops, archbishops and the sheriff.read · scan
Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German NationVol. 36
- p. 287–288Temporal power should protect the innocent and prevent wrong-doing, as Paul and Peter teach.read · scan
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Philaster, or Love Lies A-BleedingVol. 47
- p. 667–668Philaster's father was unrighteously deposed; the people lament his injuries.read · scan
8a.Privilege and exemption from law
See also: Tyranny 6b
Aesop, FablesVol. 17
- p. 12The unjust division of spoil; the powerful takes all the shares.read · scan
Buddhist WritingsVol. 45
- p. 672–673Unequal treatment of thief by rank and wealth illustrates unfair penalty, paralleling varying consequences of the same wickedness.read · scan
- p. 673–674Rank and riches exempt offenders from penalty, illustrating unequal consequences for identical wrongs.read · scan
Plutarch, Comparison of Alcibiades with CoriolanusVol. 12
- p. 186Maintaining power by terror, violence and oppression is called an injustice, not merely a disgrace.read · scan
Plutarch, AntonyVol. 12
- p. 325Antony declares affairs at Rome ordered without justice, the tribunes denied speech and Caesar's demands fair and reasonable.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 410–411Trajan refuses to establish a privilege prejudicing private property; secures long-settled private holdings against revocation.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 228–229The Wezir cruelly denies a dying man water and the people cry out against him; rescue arrives at the last moment.read · scan
Sir Thomas Malory, The Holy GrailVol. 35
- p. 124Galahad arrives to deliver the castle and end the wrongs done to maidens and poor people.read · scan
Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German NationVol. 36
- p. 268–269Christians are equal; clergy's special immunity of life and goods is unjust, a human invention.read · scan
- p. 280–281Good priests lose livings through invented disputes; Luther says Rome deserves the fate of Sodom.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 281–282Cellini appeals to the King's grant of authority against Marmagna's usurpation of the apartments.read · scan
John Webster, The Duchess of MalfiVol. 47
- p. 832Pescara refuses to give Antonio's land, seized by the Cardinal's entreaty without forfeiture by law, to a friend; calls it injustice.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, Minor WorksVol. 48
- p. 379–380To exact from men what is not due to one's rank is obvious injustice.read · scan
Jean Racine, PhaedraVol. 26
- p. 151–153He rights the wrong done to Aricia's house and frees her.read · scan
Voltaire, Letters on the EnglishVol. 34
- p. 89–90Justice to human nature came late; the people, the most useful and virtuous part, were despised.read · scan
- p. 90–91No baronial jurisdiction in England; a citizen's own field is free from lordly hunting privileges.read · scan
Benjamin Franklin, His AutobiographyVol. 1
- p. 127Proprietors instruct deputies to block defense taxes unless their estates are exempted, an injustice the Assemblies resisted for three years.read · scan
- p. 137–138The Assembly insists proprietary estates be taxed for defense as an essential right; the proprietaries' exemption is condemned as meanness and injustice.read · scan
- p. 145Franklin opposed exempting the proprietor's estate from taxation and condemned his meanness and injustice.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among MankindVol. 34
- p. 210–211The feeble voice of justice is stifled by usurpation and unbridled passions.read · scan
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsVol. 10
- p. 532–533The exemption for private brewing lightens the burden on the rich; Smith sees no equitable reason for it.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 352–353People are told to abhor feudal tyranny yet must bear its burdens; redress is denied despite prodigal talk of grievances.read · scan
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm, or The Soldier's FortuneVol. 26
- p. 304–305Tellheim's claims upon the War Office have been mistreated.read · scan
Friedrich Schiller, William TellVol. 26
- p. 403–404Furst notes no umpire exists because the oppressor is also emperor and judge, so God and their own arm must help.read · scan
- p. 423Emperor denies redress to envoy and plunders his nephew; no justice expected, so redress themselves.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 16Privileged classes escape punishment while the helpless are oppressed by arbitrary magistrates.read · scan
- p. 16Criminals escape to convents or powerful protectors; enforcers are corrupt and oppress only the defenceless.read · scan
- p. 31–32Renzo insists on knowing what he has a right to know, claiming right against intimidation.read · scan
- p. 43–44Renzo hears the edict fits his case exactly and hopes it will yield redress for oppression.read · scan
- p. 59–60The convent is an asylum impenetrable to the bailiffs and the so-called justice of the time; the crowd excuses him as provoked.read · scan
- p. 66–67He takes up composing differences and protecting the oppressed, animated when truth and justice are at stake.read · scan
- p. 68–69Helping an innocent girl against a powerful oppressor whom the authorities will not restrain.read · scan
- p. 97Friar laments powerful doers of injustice are not obliged to justify themselves; Renzo demands reasons why his bride should not be his.read · scan
- p. 106–107Griso, a murderer, escapes justice by serving Rodrigo's crimes; the powerful shelter criminals from punishment.read · scan
- p. 118–119Narrator reflects that Renzo appears the oppressor though truly oppressed, and Don Abbondio the victim though he did the wrong.read · scan
- p. 141–142A powerful nobleman persecutes a poor girl by flattery then force, driving her from home.read · scan
- p. 178Rodrigo scorns justice, confident the Podesta and Milan will never pursue the powerless.read · scan
- p. 186–187Griso's bounty and protection by Rodrigo show the bandit shielded from justice by a powerful patron.read · scan
- p. 225–226Bystanders predict evils for the superintendent, though some say a wolf does not prey on a wolf, doubting he will be punished.read · scan
- p. 226–227Renzo urges that justice can be won by making the populace felt, and denounces tyrants who flout the Commandments and oppress the poor.read · scan
- p. 227The poor cannot obtain justice under the edicts; Renzo hopes Ferrer will remedy the wrongs.read · scan
- p. 308–309The friar is to be removed without inquiry; the Provincial notes superiors must bow to the great whether he is right or wrong.read · scan
- p. 313He sets at nought justice and judges, harbouring outlaws.read · scan
- p. 397–398The poor complain of an authority to one set over the offender; Agnese pleads against scolding him.read · scan
- p. 405The Archbishop's love of justice with authority contrasted with the oppressor Rodrigo and his complicit flatterers.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The CenciVol. 18
- p. 291Beatrice asks the great officers for refuge and redress; they refuse out of fear of Cenci.read · scan
- p. 306–309She finds no law in this world that can adjudge her father's crime, and Orsino's counsel to accuse him seems worthless against his wealth.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English TraitsVol. 5
- p. 465–466Class-legislation and game-laws denounced as oppression.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 160–161Police and justice are inefficient; the rich murderer escapes consequence while the poor are punished, and respectable people aid murderers' escape.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 265Narrator's escape contrasted with poor Ben's fate; crew charges the captain favors a gentleman's son over a friendless boy, and Dana admits it is true.read · scan
- p. 367Plea of poverty and dependents would excuse nearly all masters, privileging the class; it is never allowed for shore offences, and the sailor is poorer.read · scan
John Ruskin, Sesame and LiliesVol. 28
- p. 114Condemns national injustice: poor boys jailed for walnuts while bankers and opium traders go unpunished; poor lives sacrificed to landlords.read · scan
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1155–1157James righted the poor and punished lordly wrong-doers by the headsman's axe.read · scan
8b.Taxation, monopoly and economic injustice
See also: Taxation 3a · Wealth 13a · Law 6c
Plutarch, AristidesVol. 12
- p. 100–102Aristides assesses the confederates fairly, without injustice, to universal satisfaction, and holds that a general's excellence is keeping his hands from money.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 385–387Trajan refuses to force unwilling persons to borrow, as inconsistent with the justice of his government.read · scan
Sir Thomas More, UtopiaVol. 36
- p. 157–160Old laws and prohibitions are exploited for fines and licenses under a false colour of justice.read · scan
William Harrison, A Description of Elizabethan EnglandVol. 35
- p. 233Tax burden shifts unfairly onto the remaining few householders while gentlemen who hold the land escape it.read · scan
- p. 244Honest country baker driven from market by townsmen's privileges; assize of bread unkept, the poor man wronged despite law.read · scan
- p. 245Licensed dealers escape blame; the poor are shut out by fraud and privilege.read · scan
- p. 262–263Complains laity seek to shift their taxes onto the clergy, and that church lands' lay holders escape contribution.read · scan
- p. 315Those procuring private profit from the prince at public expense should be denounced as enemies of the commonwealth.read · scan
Voltaire, Letters on the EnglishVol. 34
- p. 91Taxing each man in proportion to estate rather than title is fair.read · scan
Benjamin Franklin, His AutobiographyVol. 1
- p. 98–99Objects that the flat six-shilling tax burdens the poor widow as much as the wealthiest merchant.read · scan
- p. 161Franklin argues the tax was assessed fairly and equitably by honest assessors, and that the proprietors' fears of injury were groundless.read · scan
- p. 161–162Committee including proprietary friends unanimously finds the tax assessed with perfect equity.read · scan
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsVol. 10
- p. 124Restricting a man's labour without injury to neighbours is a plain violation of sacred property.read · scan
- p. 195Restrictions on Irish woollen manufactures are said to be as discouraging as consistent with justice and fair dealing.read · scan
- p. 365Smith condemns the violence and injustice of rulers and the mean rapacity of merchants who seek monopoly.read · scan
- p. 406Smith calls exemptions just and reasonable in principle but condemns manufacturers' extorting favours from the legislature at the poor's expense.read · scan
- p. 410Monopolies against consumers and wool growers are called absurd and oppressive.read · scan
- p. 416–417Hurting one order of citizens to promote another violates the justice and equality of treatment the sovereign owes all subjects.read · scan
- p. 418Monopolies are imposed on fellow-citizens unequally, favoring organized manufacturers over scattered graziers.read · scan
- p. 423–424Regulations unjustly sacrifice subjects' liberty to monopolist interests.read · scan
- p. 426Privileges to some branches and restraints on others violate the liberal plan of equality, liberty and justice.read · scan
- p. 454Tolls proportioned to weight are the most equitable tax, payment matching wear and gain to the consumer.read · scan
- p. 459A temporary monopoly is justified like an inventor's or author's, but a perpetual one unjustly taxes and excludes other subjects.read · scan
- p. 477Subjects should contribute in proportion to abilities; equality of taxation is a matter of fairness, and certainty matters more than equality.read · scan
- p. 479The justice and utility of the four tax maxims recommended them to all nations, with unequal success.read · scan
- p. 481–482Taxes ought to fall as equally as possible on the fund that finally pays them; the Venetian tax is more equal than England's.read · scan
- p. 485–486Assessments grow unequal, so some districts are over-taxed and others under-taxed, and relief is arbitrary.read · scan
- p. 486Tithe seems perfectly equal as a proportion of produce but is very unequal in its burden on rent.read · scan
- p. 489The final division of the house-rent tax between inhabitant and ground-owner is uncertain and may affect them very unequally.read · scan
- p. 490–491Not unreasonable that the rich contribute to public expense more than in proportion to their revenue.read · scan
- p. 491–492Houses should be rated by fair rent, not building cost, to avoid ruining great families; equitable arbitrationread · scan
- p. 494–495Window-tax objected to for inequality of the worst kind, falling heavier on the poor than the richread · scan
- p. 501Merchants who profit by a war defending trade are argued to owe contribution to itread · scan
- p. 501Tax proportioned to trade neither favours great nor oppresses small; equal flat taxes are unequal in effectread · scan
- p. 508Such taxes are cruel and oppressive because they fall on those forced to sell.read · scan
- p. 509–510Such taxes are unequal but certain and convenient; French registration abuses arise from imprecise laws.read · scan
- p. 514–515Taxes proportioned to fortune are arbitrary, those by rank unequal; uncertainty is a great grievance, so fair assessment is at issue.read · scan
- p. 534–535Unequal contributions arise from taxes on consumption, but are compensated because payment is voluntary; absentees escape support of the state.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 242Injuring men and depriving them of emoluments promised by the state is unjust whatever names are used.read · scan
- p. 248–249Confiscation is arbitrary and selective: why not seize estates of ministers and financiers who profited, rather than the innocent archbishop of Paris?read · scan
- p. 249–250Confiscation without provocation is injustice; Romans at least spread colour of treason over theirs.read · scan
- p. 253Fair repartition of burdens on all orders would have been just; rapine violates property, law and religion.read · scan
- p. 253–254Confiscation of five millions to meet a two-million deficit would be unjust and ruinous even if the clergy alone were taxed.read · scan
- p. 255The Assembly refused the clergy's offer because it would not follow any course showing appearance of justice.read · scan
- p. 257The scheme exposes the miserable peasant to arbitrary extortion by usurious grantees.read · scan
- p. 285Burke condemns France's confiscation of church and princely estates as a principle of injustice that sets justice, the common concern of mankind, at defiance.read · scan
- p. 289Arbitrarily degrading men whom law encouraged in a mode of life, and confiscating their goods, is unjust and akin to tyranny.read · scan
- p. 359–360Old salt tax charged as oppressive and partial; its unequal burden was not remedied.read · scan
- p. 360Letting districts withhold taxes introduced oppressive inequality; the most submissive bore the whole burden, and a feeble government is oppressive and unjust.read · scan
- p. 365Confiscation of church estates is condemned as sacrilege and pillage, an injustice to the church.read · scan
- p. 367Injustice is not good policy nor rapine the road to riches; the Assembly robbed in order to cheat.read · scan
- p. 368Calonne calls the expropriation of the clergy a ruinous injustice that burdens the people.read · scan
Edmund Burke, A Letter to a Noble LordVol. 24
- p. 407Revolutionaries call long possession a long-continued injustice, denying title by prescription.read · scan
Friedrich Schiller, William TellVol. 26
- p. 420Emperor cannot bestow what is their own; the grant to the Abbey is void.read · scan
William Ellery Channing, On the Elevation of the Laboring ClassesVol. 28
- p. 361Universal justice and love applied to commerce and social institutions are the remedy for civilization's evils.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 197–198Bakers protest the iniquitous burden; Ferrer answers they made past profits and must compensate the public.read · scan
- p. 452The multitude regards fixed prices as just, simple and easy, and demands them in famine.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1311Forfeiture of lands and exile without cause is felt as injustice by the villagers.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 492–493Condemns the unjust game-law that forbade the poor to burn plants for soda so that partridges would have nesting places.read · scan
8c.Slavery and the wrongs done to natives
See also: Race and Nationality 6c · Slavery 8b · War and Peace 8e
The Voyages to VinlandVol. 43
- p. 11The killing of the natives is unprovoked, an act of violence against strangers.read · scan
Amerigo Vespucci, Amerigo Vespucci's Account of His First VoyageVol. 43
- p. 28Sailors promise to avenge the wrongs the natives suffered.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of GuianaVol. 33
- p. 333Morequito, betrayed and executed after killing Spaniards, and Berreo's cruelties and spoils cost him the love of the natives.read · scan
- p. 345–346Raleigh forbids plunder and violence to Indian women, restores stolen goods and punishes offenders in view of the natives, contrasting his fair dealing with Spanish oppression.read · scan
Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and MoralVol. 3
- p. 85A plantation should not displace native peoples; otherwise it is extirpation.read · scan
- p. 85–87Treat native savages justly and graciously; abandoning a plantation is sinful, guilty of the blood of many.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The TempestVol. 46
- p. 399–410Caliban claims the island by inheritance; Prospero claims he deserved confinement for attempting to violate Miranda.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 182–183He privately remonstrates with masters over heavy burdens on slaves; foresees grievous consequences for posterity.read · scan
- p. 201Gain from oppression taints hospitality; conduct is more convincing than language.read · scan
- p. 224Slaves have not been treated with the purity of justice; God's judgments are impartial and will answer neglect.read · scan
- p. 225Root of the evil to be struck by searching motives so impartial justice is administered.read · scan
- p. 257–259Settling lands not purchased from the Indians is unjust.read · scan
- p. 260–261Natives were driven back by force or sold their land cheaply.read · scan
- p. 281He labors that equity toward the negroes be preserved and regrets his own conduct as contrary to universal love.read · scan
- p. 285–286He urges universal righteousness and holds that trade with oppressors strengthens the hands of the wicked.read · scan
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsVol. 10
- p. 327–328Europeans' savage injustice made the discovery of America ruinous to native countries when it should have benefited all.read · scan
- p. 400–401Spain seized lands of defenceless natives; the pious purpose of conversion sanctified the injustice, though gold was the sole motive.read · scan
- p. 401Natives were plundered and stripped of all they had within six or eight years.read · scan
Treaty with the Six NationsVol. 43
- p. 229Recognizes native property rights in reserved lands, promising never to claim or disturb them.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, Inaugural Address at EdinburghVol. 25
- p. 369Abolition deemed commanded by the Fountain of Justice; a suit eighty-three years old showed the abuse.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English TraitsVol. 5
- p. 390–391English are more just than kind in governing colonies, so they lack affection to rely on.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1261–1264Ransom should be paid to the slave as rightful owner of himselfread · scan
John Stuart Mill, AutobiographyVol. 25
- p. 181Jamaica atrocities demand redress; Committee sought to prosecute Governor Eyre through the courts.read · scan
- p. 181–183Jamaica Committee pursued criminal prosecution to obtain justice for the injured negroes.read · scan
John Greenleaf Whittier, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1344–1346Bitter harvest of slavery is to be reaped by those who sowed it; Almighty wrath.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 83Buenos Ayres government unjustly seized the land by force rather than purchasing it from the Indians as Spanish Viceroys did.read · scan
- p. 109Darwin questions the claimed justice of a war of extermination against the Indians.read · scan
- p. 280–281Chilian authorities make retribution to Indians formerly denied landholding by giving each a portion of land.read · scan
- p. 450Darwin laments removal of aborigines as cruel, and blames infamous conduct of countrymen for the evils.read · scan
- p. 502Powerless to remonstrate against the cruelties he witnessed, Darwin condemns the injustice done to slaves.read · scan
- p. 502–503Argues that palliating slavery by comparison with the poor is unjust reasoning; the slave's suffering demands sympathy.read · scan
Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation ProclamationVol. 43
- p. 324–325Lincoln calls the act sincerely believed an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution and military necessity.read · scan
Treaty with Great Britain (1814)Vol. 43
- p. 263–264Restoration of Indian rights and privileges, and slave trade condemned as against justice.read · scan
8d.Seafarers, workers and tenants wronged
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 397Small city with great burdens is exposed to injuries; Trajan orders delinquent soldiers corrected or sent to their officers.read · scan
Traditional BalladsVol. 40
- p. 159–161Robin takes from the rich church officials who wrong tenants; Our Lady is a fine surety who repays double.read · scan
Sir Thomas More, UtopiaVol. 36
- p. 142Evicted poor are driven by wrongs and oppression to theft, then hanged or jailed as vagabonds for not working.read · scan
- p. 236Denounces as unjust a commonwealth rewarding idle goldsmiths and gentlemen while starving necessary laborers, and calling this wrong 'justice' by law.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 252–254He would have oppressors of the poor made to suffer imprisonment so they learn justice.read · scan
William Harrison, A Description of Elizabethan EnglandVol. 35
- p. 299Condemns lords' oppression of copyholders and usurers as unjust, wishing usurers hanged in conscience.read · scan
- p. 299Laments the rich denying farmers any gain, a wrong that will prove dangerous in necessity.read · scan
- p. 301Covetous men displace tenants from holdings, making beggars for private gain.read · scan
- p. 369Poor victims lose their hard-earned goods because laws are unenforced and malefactors emboldened.read · scan
Benjamin Franklin, His AutobiographyVol. 1
- p. 136Soldiers ruined poor families and abused those who protested, unlike disciplined French allies.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 231Acts of violence and injustice irritate the young; he is treated as criminal for reluctance to submit.read · scan
- p. 294–295Injustice toward the Jews contradicts Christian charity.read · scan
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsVol. 10
- p. 68Implies unfairness in law that favors masters over workmen in wage disputes.read · scan
- p. 97The poor are plundered by mandarins under pretence of justice; courts seldom enforced contracts among barbarians.read · scan
- p. 143–144Smith calls the removal an evident violation of natural justice, oppression felt by most poor men.read · scan
- p. 144Wage laws favoring workmen are just; those favoring masters, like the tailors' act, are not, and combinations should be treated impartially.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 353The peasants argue that titles founded on force are vicious in origin, and that the agreements made under duress are void.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 60–63The lordling spurns the poor petitioner; oppression of the honest poor cries for recompense.read · scan
- p. 153Honest tenant families are ruined to satisfy a rascal's greed and ingratiate him with a master.read · scan
William Ellery Channing, On the Elevation of the Laboring ClassesVol. 28
- p. 347Only those with equity and benevolence can judge; monopolizing all advantages for one set of men is shocking.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, AutobiographyVol. 25
- p. 179Mill proposes settling Irish land question by permanent tenure at fixed rent; thorough reform needed to reconcile Ireland.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 45–46Narrator cannot tell on what grounds the distinction between driven convicts and idle men was made.read · scan
- p. 99An accident is set down against Sam; the captain's dislike is unfair, a bad name sticking like a dog's.read · scan
- p. 102–103He vows to seek justice and redress for the sufferings of sailors, a poor class.read · scan
- p. 264–265Dana resists the captain's arbitrary sentence to more years on the coast, insisting on his right; they yield fearing consequences from his friends.read · scan
- p. 276A palsied sailor is left behind as useless lumber though he should have been brought home.read · scan
- p. 298Unequal treatment of officers and crew over drink and coffee seems unfair to sailors.read · scan
- p. 303The captain has coffee while the exhausted crew get nothing; the mate secretly steals them a potful.read · scan
- p. 358Denying the captain powers commensurate with his need while holding him responsible would be injustice and bad policy.read · scan
- p. 359–360Sailors' testimony is disadvantaged against the captain, backed by owners and respectability, leaving them without legal remedy.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Twenty-Four Years AfterVol. 23
- p. 397Sailors' chance of legal proceedings against Captain Thompson proves hopeless.read · scan
John Ruskin, Sesame and LiliesVol. 28
- p. 132Brutal competition for life remains a deadly form whatever laws are made.read · scan
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