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01c. 1835 AD

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

Theodore Parker / quote

02c. 1835 AD

Humanity is the Son of God.

Theodore Parker / quote

03c. 1835 AD

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 / quote

04c. 1835 AD

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.

Theodore Parker / quote

05c. 1835 AD

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 / quote

06c. 1835 AD

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

Theodore Parker / quote