Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Thomas Clarkson
Born: March 28, 1760
Died: September 26, 1846 (aged 86)
Bio: Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire.
Known for:
- A portraiture of Quakerism (1806)