"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."
— Fanaticism

January 1, 1970

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William Wilberforce, addressing attacks on his anti-slavery positions in 1816, as quoted in The Life of William Wilberforce (1838) by Robert Isaac Wilberforce and Samuel Wilberforce.