Lincoln had long opposed the expansion of slavery, declaring it wrong, morally and politically, because it violated the rights of all people to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness set forth in the Declaration of Independence.
We must take such wrongdoing seriously, if we take seriously the values against which it offends, the victim's standing as one who has suffered such a wrong, and the wrongdoer's standing as a responsible agent who has done wrong: but to take it seriously is to be prepared to declare it to be wrong it, and to call to account and to condemn those who engage in it.
David Cameron, the new Tory leader, declared it was wrong to adopt such rightwing policies on immigration, set up a review for a new approach, and has spoken of the benefits immigration brings.
They stopped saying it, that was in November of 2006, but they have never said if they're wrong to declare it in the first place or that they've declared it over.
That stinks!" groans one, before hardcore biscuit fan Jack bites in, declares it to be "wrong: like bread" and the rest of the panel leave well alone.
She declares it's also wrong is for older people to expect sex to be what it was when they were in their 20s and 30s.
And if I can play it this way without contravening the written score, who says I can't love the piece and declare its composer wrong?
It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you voted for the war and then you declared wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.
For Labour after 2010, that meant either devoting enormous energy to dismantling the coalition narrative – explaining that Labour spending was not always wise, but that it decidedly did not cause the crash or the deficit that followed – or surrendering to it, declaring Labour got it wrong.
After laying out all the conventional wisdom on sign language (that is, it is no more than a system of sophisticated gesturing and not a real language at all; that there is just one sign language) he declares all of it wrong.
