William Wilberforce Quotes About Slave Trade

Quotes about: Slave Trade

• You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

  William Wilberforce

  Inspirational, Peace, Abolition Of Slavery

• So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.

  William Wilberforce

  Mind, Wickedness, Determined

• God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

  William Wilberforce

  Two, Morality, Slave

  "William Wilberforce". Book by William Hague, 2007.

• What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

  William Wilberforce

  Country, Civilization, Degrees

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