Social Wrong Quotes

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy.

The difference between the Republican and the Democratic parties on the leading issue of this contest is, that the former consider slavery a moral, social and political wrong, while the latter do not consider it either a moral, social or political wrong; and the action of each…is squared to meet these views.

Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.

If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be?

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.