"Protest," ll. 1-2, Poems of Problems (1914) - Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author and poet.
“Protest,” ll. 1-2, Poems of Problems (1914)
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Often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln, after Douglas MacArthur did so in a 1950 speech.

See Confucius.

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