A Quote by James Cook

We can never right the wrongs of the past.

James Cook

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Never Past Right Wrongs

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James Cook
British - Explorer
October 27, 1728 - February 14, 1779

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

Mahatma Gandhi

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

Kevin Rudd

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

Hugh Laurie

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

John Muir

We will right the wrongs of the past, and we will do everything in our power to protect the dignity of every Mississippi life.

Tate Reeves

If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four?

Buzz Osborne

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

Dennis Miller

You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.

Henry Rollins

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?

Andrew Clements

In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.

Charles Palliser

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Kevin Gates

A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is to survive, a just society must be strong and resolute enough to deal swiftly and relentlessly with those who would mistake its good will for weakness.

Eric Hoffer

To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it.