caption resting_place death_date death_place birth_place birth_date signature image article_title name
theodore parker circa 1855 english cemetery , florence 10 may 1860 florence , italy lexington , massachusetts 24 august 1810 appletons ' parker theodore signature.png theodore parker bpl c1855-crop . jpg theodore parker
 theodore parker
theodore parker

theodore parker -lrb- lexington , massachusetts , august 24 , 1810 -- florence , italy , may 10 , 1860 -rrb- was an american transcendentalist and reforming minister of the unitarian church .
a reformer and abolitionist , his words and quotations which he popularized would later inspire speeches by abraham lincoln and martin luther king , jr. .
