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Question 'Who are those in the corner? Answer 'They are those slaveholders who were unmerciful, and abused their slaves in the world, and are too proud to comply with the conditions. Question 'What were the conditions? Answer 'To make confession and ask forgiveness of the slaves, and right their wrongs; and this they are too proud to do.
He saw the gradual progress of that infernal plan which had been laid for their mutual ruin; and his soul was inflamed with such desire of vengeance, that he would have taken his leave abruptly, in order to set on foot an immediate inquiry about the perfidious author of his wrongs, that he might exterminate such a monster of iniquity from the face of the earth.
It stands to the lasting credit of the negro race in the United States that the wrongs of their long bondage provoked them to no such crime, and that the Civil War appears not to have even suggested, much less started, any such organization or attempt.
Remains there for men, who would deserve that name, any thing else to do, but to avenge their wrongs, or perish with glory?"
After that hour you will find me at home." "I thank you." "Cannot this matter be arranged amicably?" "No, it is a quarrel of life and death." "Yet the world is really growing too enlightened for these old mimicries of single combat." "There are some cases in which human nature and its deep wrongs will be ever stronger than the world and its philosophy.
The soldier of varying fortunes, the duellist and dreamer, the devout Catholic and devout Buddhist, saw the forty-third year of his life only as the meeting-place of many fiascos. His mind was tormented with imaginary wrongs, imaginary slights, imaginary failures.
It was more honorable and knightly to be true in letter and in spirit to every law of his reunited land than to make the woes of the past an excuse for the wrongs of the present. He felt all the more scrupulous in regard to this, because those measures were not altogether such as he would have adopted, nor such as he could yet believe would prove immediately successful.
One evening at her apartment Frank met a young woman named France, a fragile, fine-haired, dreamy sort of girl, and he was not surprised to learn that she wrote poetry. "Norah's been working as a telephone operator," explained Aleta. "She's written a story about it the working girl's wrongs.... Oh, not the ordinary wail-and-whine," she added hastily. "It's real meat. I've read it.
The remainder of the evening was passed in the usual bar-room style; although the conversation for the most part, turned upon the wrongs of Ireland and the mode of redressing them.
I must acknowledge that the reports which I heard, and which I sometimes read, of the marvellous constancy and serenity of the Christians, under accumulated sufferings and wrongs, interested my feelings in their behalf; and the thought often arose, "Must there not be truth to support such heroism?" But the world went on its way, and I with it, and the Christians were forgotten.
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