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Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. Early life, 1810–1829.
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Apr 1, 2024 · Theodore Parker (born August 24, 1810, Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 10, 1860, Florence, Italy) was an American Unitarian theologian, pastor, scholar, and social reformer who was active in the antislavery movement.
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Above all else, Parker was the prophet of the moral self, the emancipator, setting man free from traditionalism and convention, and bringing him face to face with God manifest in the world without, abiding in the soul within. — By William W. Fenn. Related Resources in the Harvard Square Library Collection.
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Minister and Abolitionist Theodore Parker. Boston Public Library. Quick Facts. Significance: Minister and Abolitionist. Place of Birth: Lexington, Massachusetts, United States. Date of Birth: August 24, 1810. Place of Death: Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Date of Death: May 10, 1860. Place of Burial: Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Cemetery Name:
Freedom: A History of US. Biography. Theodore Parker | PBS. Parker, an outspoken abolitionist Unitarian minister from Boston, eventually led a congregation that numbered 7,000 worshippers....
Harvard Divinity School Library, Harvard University. Explore the papers of Theodore Parker, the 19th-century Unitarian minister, abolitionist, and leading figure in the Transcendentalist movement.
Theodore Parker was a transcendentalist and Unitarian preacher, as well as one of the “Secret Six” who funded John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. Parker's 1852 sermon “Justice and the Conscience” inspired Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous quote that “the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”.
