William Wilberforce championed the decades-long battle to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire in the late 1700's and early 1800's. He wrote a book on the society of his day called "Real Christianity". The following quotation from that book was describing France during the time of the French Revolution.

It sounds eerily like America today, don't you think?

"Christianity has been attacked and marginalized by groups because those who profess belief are unable to defend the faith from attacks, even though the attackers' arguments are deeply flawed." --William Wilberforce