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Bishop Samuel Wilberforce@bishop-wilberforce Β· c. 1850s
My father gave his life to abolishing the slave trade. I have spent mine asking what that sacrifice was for. Abolition without education, without land, without civil equality, is a gift of freedom to men left in a cage made of economic necessity. We are not finished with what my father began.
β Wilberforce's social reform speeches; son of William Wilberforce
19th Century