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Theodore Parker was an American transcendentalist, reforming minister, and influential abolitionist. His sermons and speeches inspired many in the fight against slavery and for social justice. He was a key figure in shaping progressive religious and political thought in 19th-century America. Here are 46 of his quotes:

The world no doubt grows better; comfort is increased from age to age. (Theodore Parker)
I am to do justice, and demand that of all, - a universal human debt, a universal human claim. View quote
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If it shall ever be so, still the great ideas which I have set forth, of man, of God, of religion, - they will endure, and one day will be "a flame in the heart of all mankind." View quote
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Man naturally loves justice, for its own sake, as the natural object of his conscience. As the mind loves truth and beauty, so conscience loves the right; it is true and beautiful to the moral faculties. View quote
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There is what I call the American idea. View quote
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Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man. View quote
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Eternity is the life-time of Truth. View quote
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The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant. View quote
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Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. View quote
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The facts of man's history do not fully represent the faculties of his nature as the history of matter represents the qualities of matter. View quote
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The universe itself is a great autograph of the Almighty. (Theodore Parker)
I love justice, not for its consequences for bodily gain, but for itself, for the moral truth and loveliness thereof. View quote
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Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. View quote
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises. View quote
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No man is so great as mankind. View quote
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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man. View quote
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Humanity is the sin of God. View quote
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The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. View quote
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Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God. On this world about us He has inscribed His thought, in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand. The universe itself is a great autograph of the Almighty. View quote
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Justice is moral temperance in the world of men. It keeps just relations between men; one man, however little, must not be sacrificed to another, however great, to a majority, or to all men. It holds the balance betwixt nation and nation, for a nation is but a larger man; betwixt a man and his family, tribe, nation, race; between mankind and God. It is the universal regulator which coordinates man with man, each with all, - me with the ten hundred millions of men, so that my absolute rights and theirs do not interfere, nor our ultimate interests ever clash, nor my eternal welfare prove antagonistic to the blessedness of all or any one. I am to do justice, and demand that of all, - a universal human debt, a universal human claim. View quote
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The people are not satisfied with any form of government, or statute law, until it comes up to their sense of justice; so every progressive State revises its statutes from time to time, and at each revision comes nearer to the absolute right which human nature demands. Mankind, always progressive, revolutionizes constitutions, changes and changes, seeking to come close to the ideal justice, the divine and immutable law of the world, to which we all owe fealty, swear how we will. (Theodore Parker)

Theodore Parker

Occupation: American Theologian
Born: August 24, 1810
Died: May 10, 1860
Quotes count: 46
Wikipedia: Theodore Parker

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