When wrong is committed, it is usually punished, thus fulfilling Miss Prism's summation in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), to the effect that in a novel the good characters end up happily and the bad characters unhappily: "that is why it is called fiction".
He was a man who would not stand back and watch a "wrong" being committed.
Therefore we abhor deliberate or reckless untruth in this study as much as in any other; and therefore we feel that a grave wrong is committed by all who, holding a position that entitles them to respect, yet condone and encourage such untruth.
Moreover, in many countries wrongs were committed by the opposition as well as the old regime.
Parliament was consistently misled, so that the opportunities that would otherwise have arisen to deal with the wrongs being committed were lost".
"We have to acknowledge first that terrible wrongs were committed, then begin to make amends to those who were wronged, then put a system in place to see that this doesn't happen again".
The committee issued a controversial 1995 report which said that "wrongs were committed" but it did not condemn those who perpetrated them.
You'll notice the wrongs being committed around you, and if you point them out, you'll be picked out from the crowd and be labeled in a way that puts you outside of this group everyone else is a part of.
Although all religions of the world preach love, peace, solidarity and compassion, it is unfortunately true that wrongs are committed, injustices justified, indifference to the plight of children accepted and harmful traditional practices perpetuated in the name of religion.
Nevertheless, your moral support, your clear and continued collaboration to spread an outcry against the wrongs being committed against your fellow global citizens is a source of strength and solidarity with those who are at the frontline.
