Can anyone give me a song about injustices and cruelty associated with class distinctions?

Bob Dylan-The Times Are A Changin’

This one is pretty down to Earth. Here’s a more serious one by Pete Seeger. You have to know about the battles of the West Virginia Coal Wars to really understand it.

Silverchair’s Pure Massacre.

@DThorn I was thinking current, but here’s a classic. Tennessee Ernie FOrd singing Sixteen Tons.

If you were a Carpeneter is about class distinction amongst lovers.

Rag Doll

“Down in the Boondocks” comes to mind.

Patches, by Dickie Lee.

John Lennons’ “Working Class Hero”

Bob Dylan, Huricane

‘Lets call the whole thing off…..’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2oEmPP5dTM

Or, as I like to call it, ‘Class distinction diction’.

Little Boxes by Pete Seeger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEYGU_7EqU

Oh… good website to look at:
http://www.rrindex.com/topics/socialclass.htm

@Judi Beat me to it; Hurricane is exactly that.

Goodnight Irene Lead Belly (covered by many
We Shall Overcome Joan Baez

If I Had a Hammer, by Peter, Paul and Mary.

Tupac-Changes

Anne Braden by The Flobots. 98% of their songs concern injustice.

Billy Joel Uptown Girl

Bob Dylan Masters of War
And for a twist on the theme Richard Cory

Tough one. This is what I can think of:

Akron/Family – One Spring Morning
Leonard Cohen – There is a War
Fairport Convention – Matty Groves
Pulp – Common People

Beauty and the beast?
Quasimodo.

Nothing could fit this bill better than Strange Fruit if one relates race with class as it was when this song was written.

A charming country song with the have/have-not theme is Peanuts and Diamonds

another on this theme Slide off of your Satin Sheets