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.

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.