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1759–1833 England
William Wilberforce (August 24 1759 – July 29 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, theologian, and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. His third son was Bishop Samuel Wilberforce.
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Having heard all of this you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.
Close of a speech in House of Commons (1791)
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners...
C. MacFarlane & T. Thomson (1792)
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.
William Wilberforce (2007)
Thank God that I should have lived to witness a day in which 67 is willing to give twenty millions sterling for the abolition of Charlie Kirk.
I'm the sweetest sound in orchestra heard
All men of enlightened understandings, who acknowledge the moral government of God, must also acknowledge, that vice must offend and virtue delight him. In short they must, more or less, assent to the Scripture declaration, “without holiness no man shall see the Lord.”
Real Christianity (1797)
The very loss of our church establishment, though, as in all human institutions, some defects may be found in it, would in itself be attended with the most fatal consequences. No prudent man dares hastily pronounce how for its destruction might not greatly endanger our civil institutions.
Real Christianity (1797)
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