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.

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.