Tributes to Thomas Clarkson
"He has never more than one thought in his brain at a time, let it be great or small. I have called him the moral steam-engine, or the Giant with one idea."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"He, if ever human being did it, listened exclusively to his conscience and obeyed its voice." ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"As soon as he is satisfied that any measure ought to succeed, it is not possible to convince him that it cannot." ~ Henry Crabb Robinson
"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man, as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism of Fox; Methodism of Wesley; Abolition of Clarkson." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson