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There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy,--that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. For shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

Source: Speech at the N. E. Antislavery Convention, Boston, May 29, 1850.
-- Theodore Parker, (Aug 24 1810-1860), US theologian, pastor, scholar; He repudiated much traditional Christian dogma, putting in its place an intuitive knowledge of God derived from man's experience of nature.

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