Monday, August 29, 2016

Quote of the Week

"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."

- William Wilberforce, a Christian politician who labored successfully for the abolition of the slave trade within all British dominions

(Painting: "Portrait of William Wilberforce," by Karl Anton Hickel, 1794)