I am the voice of the voiceless:
Through me, the dumb shall speak;
Til the deaf world’s ear be made to hear
The cry of the wordless weak.
From street, from cage and from kennel,
From jungle, and stall, the wail
Of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
Of the mighty against the frail

                    -Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)

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