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

—  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Protest

Protest, contained in "Poems of Problems", pp. 154–55 (1914). This quotation is often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln.
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)

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American author and poet 1850–1919

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