“Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.”
Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) British hymn writer and theologian
The Sorrowful World.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The goal towards which the advance will probably be made at an accelerated pace, is that in the direction of which the legislation of the last quarter of a century has been tending—the intervention, in other words, of the State on behalf of the weak against the strong, in the interests of labour against capital, of want and suffering against luxury and wealth.”
‘The Revolution of 1884’, The Fortnightly Review, No. CCXVII, New Series (1 January 1885), quoted in T. H. S. Escott (ed.), The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXXVII, New Series (1 January – 1 June 1885), p. 9
1880s
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