128 Quotes by Theodore Parker

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

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

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.

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

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.