Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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Theodore Parker
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The present aspect of slavery in America and the immediate duty of the North: a speech delivered in the hall of the State house, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Convention, on Friday night, January 29, 1858
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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.
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.
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.
Yet if he would man cannot live all to this world. If not religious he will be superstitious. If he worship not the true God he will have his idols.
Humanity is the Son of God.
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are " but "You are as good as I am."
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.