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
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More Quotes By Theodore Parker
  1. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

  2. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

  3. 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...

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

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

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