Quote by Ella Wheeler Wilcox on Silence and Cowardice

„To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.“

Ella Wheeler WilcoxElla Wheeler Wilcox warns that silence when protest is needed is cowardice. A quote about courage and moral responsibility.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American writer and poet of the 19th century.

The quote emphasizes the moral duty to protest and criticizes silent complacency as cowardice.


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Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born in 1850 in Wisconsin and started writing poetry during her teenage years. She became recognized as a poet and continued her literary work into early adulthood. Wilcox is especially known for her poetic works that reached a wide audience.

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"When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control." Theodore Dalrymple
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