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.

Biography


Early life
Theodore Parker was born in Lexington Massachusetts the youngest child in a large farming family. Theodore Parker (1947) scholarly biography excerpt and text search
Commager Henry Steele. He is buried in the English Cemetery in Florence.

A reformer and abolitionist his words and quotations which he popularized would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.