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To ignore a wrong, is to endorse it

Kate Swaffer (she/her) Kaurna Country / October 8, 2022
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Forgive no error you recognize,

it will repeat itself,

increase,

and afterwards our pupils will not forgive in us what we forgave.

(‘Lies’, in Selected Poems, by Yevgeny Yevtushenko)

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October 8, 2022 in Author: Kate Swaffer © 2022. Tags: Lies by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, To ignore a wrong is to endorse it

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