William Wilberforce
# William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce (24 de agosto de 1759 – 29 de julho de 1833) foi um político, filantropo, teólogo e líder britânico do movimento para abolir o tráfico de escravos. Seu terceiro filho foi o bispo Samuel Wilberforce.
       - Let us not despair; it is a blessed cause, and success, ere long, will crown our exertions. Already we have gained one victory; we have obtained, for these poor creatures, the recognition of their human nature, which, for a while was most shamefully denied. This is the first fruits of our efforts; let us persevere and our triumph will be complete. Never, never will we desist till we have wiped away this scandal from the Christian name, released ourselves from the load of guilt, under which we at present labour, and extinguished every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times, will scarce believe that it has been suffered to exist so long a disgrace and dishonour to this country.
          - Discurso perante a Câmara dos Comuns (18 de abril de 1791).
       - Having heard all of this you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.
          - Encerramento de um discurso na Câmara dos Comuns (1791), conforme citado em Once Blind: The Life of John Newton (2008) por Kay Marshall Strom, p. 225.
       - God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners...
          - C. MacFarlane e T. Thomson. (1792), A história abrangente da Inglaterra, desde o período mais antigo até a supressão da revolta dos Sepoys, página 752.
       - 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.
          - Citado em William Wilberforce (2007), William Hague