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Humanity is the Son of God.

Yet if he would man cannot live all to this world. If not religious he will be superstitious. If ...

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Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed howeve...

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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ...

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The present aspect of slavery in America and the immediate duty of the North: a speech delivered in the hall of the State house

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are " but "You are as good as I am."

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of h...

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Theodore Parker

Born: 1810-08-24

Died: 1860-05-10

Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was a reforming American minister of the Unitarian church, an abolitionist, and a Transcendentalist.More