William Wilberforce Quotes

What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

William Wilberforce

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 24, 1759 - July 29, 1833

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When you come through this world, and you become successful, you have to give back.

Jesse White

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I've been practicing Ayurvedic medicine, and I've read the 'Bhagavad Gita' and Rumi, and these are very important.

Andie MacDowell

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I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.

Maxine Peake

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I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.

Silas Weir Mitchell

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'Roc' was sort of an experiment because none of the lead actors on our show had any real television experience, especially in half-hour TV.

Rocky Carroll

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I love Charles Fuller.

Rutina Wesley

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Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

Michael Medved

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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

Livy

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I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

Joyce Carol Oates

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To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.

Jason Aldean

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I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

Joseph Rotblat

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You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.

Jose Altuve

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