Lyman Abbott Quotes

A mob pelting pilloried wrongdoers with rotten vegetables would seem to have little in common with one doing the same with 140-character invective, except of course the most important thing: the belief that they are in the right, and are even doing good by making the object of their contempt feel really, really bad.

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

Abolish lynching

I would lynch him.

I repudiate as much as any man can anyone, whether he be a white brute or a black brute, who commits an assault upon any woman, whether a white woman or a black woman. I think such a man ought to be hung--hung by the neck until dead. But it ought to be done by the courts, not by an infuriated mob

I have no feelings for the criminal. All my feelings lie with the victim.

They want to do the right thing, most people. For that little core that doesn't want to do the right thing and gets away with it routinely, most people want to see them get a good whupping. And I am your girl.

But a lot of 'Bhavesh Joshi' comes from the 'angry young man' - the Bachchan films of the '70s or the Sunny Deol films of the '80s, where there is someone who has been wronged and wants to do the right thing.

We got a rally a little while later - to talk to the rally because what I heard at that meeting [in Flint] - it was almost impossible for me to believe that I was listening to people in the United States of America in the year 2016.

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you.

God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.