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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873) was an English philosopher and politician. As he says here, in these words taken from a speech that he gave in 1867, doing nothing can be the same as doing wrong. It certainly can have the same effect. Mill,
the second Member of Parliament to call for women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom, was an early champion of gender and racial equality, and called for the abolition of slavery in the United States.
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