Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker
Theodore Parkerwas an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth24 August 1810
CountryUnited States of America
Theodore Parker quotes about
freedom mean democracy
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".
atheist eye sight
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
education book knowledge
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
promise magnificent
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
marriage falling-in-love long
A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.
inward failing judgment
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
respect self individual
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
men rights ideas
First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal in men; that government is to organize these natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people. Here government is development, not exploitation.
vanity giving liberality
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
jesus men newton
It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
government law ideas
A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
heart self soul
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.
college conscience
There is no college for the conscience.