"The people are not satisfied with any form of government, or statute law, until it comes up to their sense of justice; so every progressive State revises its statutes from time to time, and at each revision comes nearer to the absolute right which human nature demands. Mankind, always progressive, revolutionizes constitutions, changes and changes, seeking to come close to the ideal justice, the divine and immutable law of the world, to which we all owe fealty, swear how we will."
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Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 β May 10, 1860) was a reforming American minister of the Unitarian church, an abolitionist, and a Transcendentalist.
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