Time to Step Up, Cowards

“To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men.”  

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919), poet, from “Protest,” in Poems of Problems, 1941.

• Editorial Comment: “I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified. I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me.” —Christine Blasey Ford

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