“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.”
Theodore Parker“Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.”
Theodore Parker“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.”
Theodore Parker“Yet if he would man cannot live all to this world. If not religious he will be superstitious. If he worship not the true God he will have his idols.”
Theodore Parker“Humanity is the Son of God.”
Theodore Parker“Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.”
Theodore Parker“Democracy means not "I am as good as you are " but "You are as good as I am."”
Theodore Parker“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
Theodore Parker“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.”
Theodore Parker, The present aspect of slavery in America and the immediate duty of the North: a speech delivered in the hall of the State house, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Convention, on Friday night, January 29, 1858