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“Having heard all of this you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.
— William Wilberforce
Abolitionist
Close of a speech in House of Commons (1791), as quoted in Once Blind : The Life of John Newton (2008) by Kay Marshall Strom, p. 225.
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Photo: Michal Klajban · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · Portrait: Anton Hickel (1745–1798) Alternative names Anton Huckel; Anton Heckel; Carl Anton Hickel; Heckel; Hickel; Huckel; Karl Anton Hickel (Public domain)
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