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

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1914

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Standing up for what's right Courage Cowardice Protest Politics

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1914

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. "Protest." Poems of Problems. W. B. Conkey Company, 1914.

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To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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