Quotes from work
Protest


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“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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