Thank God that I should have lived to witness a day in which England is willing to give twenty millions sterling for the abolition of slavery. - William Wilberforce

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners...

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