William Wilberforce Slave Trade Quotes

#1. The amount of time spent doing something is what adds value to it

Sunday Adelaja

#2. The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is What do these stories mean?

Reza Aslan

#3. For when I am powerless, it is then that I am strong..

Paul The Apostle

#4. All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

Peter Kreeft

#5. 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

#6. In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

Bob Dylan

#7. The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Thornton Wilder

#8. God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.

William Wilberforce

#9. You know this means that what we did-what we almost did in Paris-"
"Going to the Eiffel Tower?

Cassandra Clare

#10. Ow interest can draw a film across the eyes, so think, that total blindness could do no more; and how it is our duty therefore to trust not to the reasonings of interested men, or to their way of colouring a transaction.
William Wilberforce, 12th May 1789, Against the slave trade

William Wilberforce

#11. My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.

Jorge Ramos

#12. 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