Quote#Freedom
I have had the honour to receive the resolutions passed at the…
Quote byWilliam Ewart Gladstone · 1809–1898
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Lord Shaftesbury, chairman of the meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (22 November 1882), quoted in The Times (27 November 1882), p. 4.
English (original)
I have had the honour to receive the resolutions passed at the meeting recently held in Willis's Rooms, which your lordship has been good enough to forward to me. I can assure your lordship that the subject of those resolutions is engaging the earnest attention of Her Majesty's Government, who will avail themselves of every opportunity for securing the suppression of slavery and the slave trade.
— William Ewart Gladstone
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