Theodore Parker
"Justice is the keynote of the world, and all else is ever out of tune...Man naturally loves justice for its own sake; As the mind loves truth and beauty, so conscience loves the right.Men who think have an ideal justice better than the things about them. Here are the needy who ask not gold nor bread, but sympathy, respect and counsel. Here are the beggars and paupers, a reproach to our civilization. Here are the drunkards, the criminals, the abandoned, sometimes the foe, but far oftener the victim, of society.
Every jail is a monument on which is writ in letters of iron that we are still heathens. The gallows, black and hideous, lifts its arm, a sign of our infamy, an index of our shame. And war — the worst form of evil!
Shall justice fail and perish out of the world of men? Shall wrong continually endure? Injustice cannot stand. No armies, no alliance, can hold it up. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
- Theodore Parker (1810-1860)
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