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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.

— William Wilberforce Close of a speech in House of Commons (1791)

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Source: Close of a speech in House of Commons (1791), as quoted in Once Blind : The Life of John Newton (2008) by Kay Marshall Strom, p. 225.
Work: Close of a speech in House of Commons, 1791
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