Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took us eighteen years to add the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution to right the wrong done by the fallible judge who changed his mind one night on the income tax. Recently we have had the votes of more than two-thirds of the Congressmen and two-thirds of the Senators repudiate the decision of a fifth fallible judge on the question of child slavery: and now we are in the midst of submitting to the 48 states the humane. God-given amendment in behalf of the childhood of the nation. . . . How much better it would be if the Constitution...
...Progressives are not lacking in common sense; they are quite as intelligent as the reactionaries. In fact, the presumption of intelligence is on their side, because a man must be informed before he can protest against an existing wrong and propose a remedy.. Anyone can submit to injustice without having any information on the subject at all; in fact, the less information he has, the less liable he is to protest...
...Wrong things aint'a goin...
...they aint'a goin'a be no more. We sing this song Against the wrong What aint'a goin'a be no more...
Unfortunately, Hogarth still had his enemies. Two in particular-an ex-priest and a cockney murderer-had peculiar talents for turning up at the wrong time in the wrong places. At the height of his triumph, the murderer stabbed him and the ex-priest contrived to sink most of his floating forts. Hogarth fled for his life, his power tumbling in ruins about his head...