Friday, September 01, 2006

For those whom others would try to silence


"To sin by silence, when one should protest, makes cowards out of men."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is actually missattributed to Lincoln. See http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox or http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Misattributions

Sorry

Rob said...

Sometimes attributed to Lincoln since a 1950 speech of Douglas MacArthur citing him as its author, it is actually from a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Allright Brett, you can fight MacArthur on this one.