“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
― William Wilberforce (1759-1833)
“We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.”
― William Wilberforce (1759-1833)
“We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.”
― William Wilberforce (1759-1833)
“This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!”
― William Wilberforce (1759-1833)
“The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.”
― William Wilberforce (1759-1833)
“The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.”
― William Wilberforce (1759-1833)
"Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me."
― William Wilberforce (1759-1833)
"It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power."
― William Wilberforce (1759-1833)
"No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people!"
― William Wilberforce (1759-1833)