“There are conditions in which many of the poor exist, where humanity…” — Gerald Massey

“There are conditions in which many of the poor exist, where humanity must be either rebel or slave. For the slave, degradation and moral death are certain; but for the rebel there is always a chance of becoming conqueror.”

Insisting that resistance offers dignity where submission does not · Preface to the third edition of Babe Christabel (1854)

Gerald Massey

About Gerald Massey

29 May 1828–29 October 1907

Gerald Massey, born on 29 May 1828 in Tring, Hertfordshire, and dead on 29 October 1907 in South Norwood, London, lived one of the most striking self-made literary lives of the Victorian age. He was a poet, lecturer, editor, radical reformer, Shakespearean commentator, spiritual seeker, and amateur investigator of…

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