Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

Discrimination is a disease.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

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

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

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

A right delayed is a right denied.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

[Objecting to administration policies:] Truth is on the scaffold, wrong is on the throne.

The antiquity of an abuse is no justification for its continuance.

The highest law is often the greatest wrong..

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one

People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change. That's something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.