Moral Courage In William Wilberforce's Relation To The Holocaust

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“We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.”(goodreads.com) William Wilberforce spent most of his teenage years hooked to his faith. Although he encountered many problems along the way to defeat slavery his life definitely displays moral courage. He did not know what he was going to do with his life at this point, but I bet he had no idea what life had in stock for him. By examining moral courage, how he relates to the Holocaust, and how he impacts me it is clear that he speaks out for everything that he believes in, and he does whatever he can to announce his message to the whole world. He truly had a life worth waiting for. In the beginning William was like any other young child playing outside …show more content…

He thinks that freeing the slaves would be a very sympathetic for all the people who wanted slavery gone. Although William was doing the right thing Hitler did the same thing by wanting to get rid of all Jews. It is just that Hitler was doing it the other way around by taking all the Jews he was doing everything wrong. Both the slaves and the Jews were held captive for quite a while it was just a matter of time before they knew they would be free. So William has a relation with the holocaust because they both wanted to get rid of something or …show more content…

Living a quite a long life he used most of it for the Abolition Movement, prison reform, educational reform, and public health. Informing everyone about what problems lie ahead with these topics. William thought that we need to get rid of slavery and Hitler thought that we needed to get rid of Jews. And finally he inspires me to speak out and show the world what I can do. “If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don’t do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving , you are in fact being

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