William Wilberforce Quotes About Trade

Quotes about: Trade

• I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for having suffered this horrid trade to be carried on under their authority. We are all guilty—we ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others; and I therefore deprecate every kind of reflection against the various descriptions of people who are more immediately involved in this wretched business.

  William Wilberforce

  Mean, Reflection, People

• 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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