A cry to the toilers to rise, to be high as the highest that rules them, To earn the earth in their life-time and hand it down to their children.

— JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY, From the Earth, A Cry, in The Statues in the Block, and Other Poems, p. 42.

Saith man to man, “We’ve heard and known That we no master need To live upon this earth, our own, In fair and manly deed.”

— WILLIAM MORRIS, No Master, in Songs of Freedom, p. 328.