Theodore Parker
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Sep 29, 2026
speaker_6NARRATOR
The greatness and courage worshipped in Lincoln have been forgotten in the men who created the background for the panorama of that time.
speaker_6NARRATOR
The true patron saints of the black men were represented in that handful of fighters in Boston, Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, whose great courage and sturdiness culminated in that somber giant, John Brown.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Their untiring zeal, their eloquence and perseverance undermined the stronghold of the Southern lords.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Lincoln and his minions followed only when abolition had become a practical issue recognized as such by all.
David WalesNARRATOR
The greatness and courage worshipped in Lincoln have been forgotten in the men who created the background for the panorama of that time.
David WalesNARRATOR
The true patron saints of the black men were represented in that handful of fighters in Boston, Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, whose great courage and sturdiness culminated in that somber giant, John Brown.
David WalesNARRATOR
Their untiring zeal, their eloquence and perseverance undermined the stronghold of the Southern lords.
David WalesNARRATOR
Lincoln and his minions followed only when abolition had become a practical issue recognized as such by all.
Betty BNARRATOR
And where the land she travels from? Away, far, far behind is all that they can say.
Betty BNARRATOR
In addition to the three great English poets who are buried in this cemetery, two famous Americans lie here, Richard Hildreth and Theodore Parker.
Betty BNARRATOR
When I was an undergraduate, I asked Professor W. G. Sumner what was the best history of the United States that had ever been written.
Betty BNARRATOR
He answered gruffly and without a word of qualification, "Hildreth's." Accordingly, I read every word of the six volumes.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
The greatness and courage worshipped in Lincoln have been forgotten in the men who created the background for the panorama of that time.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
The true patron saints of the black men were represented in that handful of fighters in Boston, Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, whose great courage and sturdiness culminated in that somber giant, John Brown.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
Their untiring zeal, their eloquence and perseverance undermined the stronghold of the Southern lords.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
Lincoln and his minions followed only when abolition had become a practical issue recognized as such by all.
Dennis SayersNARRATOR
For instance, though colored children attended the schools, and were treated kindly by their teachers, the New Bedford Lyceum refused, till several years after my residence in that city, to allow any colored person to attend the lectures delivered in its hall.
Dennis SayersNARRATOR
Not until such men as Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Horace Mann refused to lecture in their course while there was such a restriction, was it abandoned.
Dennis SayersNARRATOR
Becoming satisfied that I could not rely on my trade in New Bedford to give me a living, I prepared myself to do any kind of work that came to hand— I sawed wood, shoveled coal, dug cellars,
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Ted LinhartNARRATOR
End of Section 2 Section 3 of America of the Fifties Letters of Fredrika Bremer This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read by Ted Linhart Boston, December 2nd Here I am in the midst of a severe cold, but in a warm and handsome room in Revere House, with a glowing fire to bear me company.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
In the forenoon I went to church and heard a singular kind of sermon from Theodore Parker, a man of powerful character and richly gifted as a speaker, who with a strong and fearless spirit applies the morality of Christianity to the political and social questions of the day and country.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
He has a Socratic head and large, well-formed hands.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
His whole being, expression, and gestures struck me as entirely original, the expression of a determined and powerful nature.
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Ted LinhartNARRATOR
She looks almost better in private than on the stage.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
The frank blue eye, the strong intelligent forehead, and the honest sensible expression of her whole demeanor and conversation make her company very desirable.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Sunday I heard Theodore Parker preach.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
He made a full and free confession of his faith, and I rejoiced to see his honesty and courage, although I could not rejoice at the confession of faith in itself, which was a very imperfect recognition of the Christian revelation, and which acknowledged in Christ merely a human and moral teacher, although as such the model and ideal of humanity.
Erin LewisGUEST
You may be familiar with the words of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., when he describes the arc of our moral universe.
Erin LewisGUEST
Reverend Dr. King's words nod to a 19th century Unitarian minister, Theodore Parker, who spoke from within the abolitionist movement and said, I do not pretend to understand the moral universe.
Erin LewisGUEST
The arc is a long one.
Erin LewisGUEST
My eye reaches but little ways.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The greatness and courage worshipped in Lincoln have been forgotten in the men who created the background for the panorama of that time.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The true patron saints of the black men were represented in that handful of fighters in Boston, Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, whose great courage and sturdiness culminated in that somber giant, John Brown.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Their untiring zeal, their eloquence and perseverance undermined the stronghold of the Southern lords.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Lincoln and his minions followed only when abolition had become a practical issue recognized as such by all.
Phyllis VincelliNARRATOR
But the Dial was nevertheless the means of uniting the advocates of the new philosophy and of affording an opening for many writers of merit who had been hitherto unknown.
Phyllis VincelliNARRATOR
Commencing in July 1840, it continued to be issued for four years, the editorship during the first half of that time being entrusted to Margaret Fuller and George Ripley, while among the contributors were Emerson, Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Ripley, Theodore Parker, Elizabeth Peabody, Lowell, Thoreau, Ellery Channing, Jones Very, W. H. Channing, and many others of more or less note.
Phyllis VincelliNARRATOR
Each of the four volumes of the Dial contained essays and poems from Thoreau's pen, his poem on sympathy in the first number being his earliest appearance in print.
Phyllis VincelliNARRATOR
This, however, was but his novitiate in literary work, and several of his papers were rejected by Margaret Fuller during the term of her editorship, with a candid criticism of what she judged to be their crudities and defects.
Betty B.VOICE_ACTOR
And where the land she travels from? Away, far, far behind is all that they can say.
Betty B.VOICE_ACTOR
In addition to the three great English poets who are buried in this cemetery, two famous Americans lie here, Richard Hildreth and Theodore Parker.
Betty B.VOICE_ACTOR
When I was an undergraduate, I asked Professor W.G. Sumner what was the best history of the United States that had ever been written.
Betty B.VOICE_ACTOR
He answered gruffly and without a word of qualification, Hildreth's.
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