The Power of Patience 
William Wilberforce took the long view - and nothing less would stop slavery.
It's hard to imagine that a man with a gentle grin and a small, crippled body could turn the world upside down. Yet William Wilberforce, once described as "a shrimp," did?but not by might.
With a natural wit and eloquence, he charmed his way through school and into Parliament in the late eighteenth century. But he was aimless. "The first years I was in Parliament," he later wrote, "I did nothing?nothing, ...
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