“Having heard all of this you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.”

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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English politician 1759–1833

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