Voice of the voiceless

I am the voice of the voiceless:

Through me, the dumb shall speak;

Till 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

 

And I am my brother's keeper,

And I will fight his fight;

And speak the word for beast and bird

Till the world shall set things right.

 

(Ella Wheeler Wilcox)