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.

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.