Famous UU's & UUism

Prominent Unitarians or Universalists

Jane Addams
Louisa May Alcott
Susan B. Anthony
John Murray Atwood
George de Benneville
Hosea Ballou
Adin Ballou
Bela Bartok
Clara Barton
Henry W. Bellows
Olympia Brown
William E. Channng
Lydia Child
Errold Collymore
Francis David
Charles Darwin
Dorothea Dix
Frederick M. Eliot
Ralph W. Emerson
Sophia Lyon Fahs
Fanny Farmer
Benjamin Franklin
Margaret Fuller
Horace Greeley
Samuel G. Howe
Thomas Jefferson
Jenkin L. Jones
Thomas S. King
Abner Kneeland
Lewis H. Latimer
Arthur Lismer
Mary A. Livermore
Angus H. MacLean
Maria Mitchell
John Murray
Theodore Parker
Beatrix Potter
Joseph Priestly
James Reeb
Caleb Rich
Benjamin Rush
Michael Servetus
King John Sigismund
Clarence R. Skinner
Charles Spear
Nathaniel Stacy
Emily Jenning Stowe
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Josiah Wedgwood
Elhanan Winchester
Whitney Young, Jr.


Books About Well-Known Unitarian and Universalists
Credo: Unitarians and Universalists of Yesteryear Talk About Their Lives and Motivations by Don McEvoy, Lowell Publishing, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2001

These Live Tomorrow: Twenty Unitarian-Universalist Lives by Clinton Lee Scott, Beacon Press, Unitarian-Universalist Association, 1987

Quotes from Unitarian Universalists

"Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold." Theodore Parker

"No article in the faith is more central or basic than that of the sacredness of every other human being." Duncan Howlett


"I am surer that my rational nature is from God than that any book is an expression of his will." William Ellery Channing

A great grief has taught me more than any minister, and when feeling most alone I find refuge in the Almighty Friend.
Louisa May Alcott

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
Susan B. Anthony

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
Hosea Ballou

No man ought to advertise in the midst of landscapes or scenery in such a way as to destroy or injure their beauty. . . It is outrageously selfish to destroy the pleasure of thousands for the sake of a chance of additional gain. P.T. Barnum

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. . . I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.
Clara Barton

Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not bum until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance-the idea that anything is possible.
Ray Bradbury

The groves were God's first temples.
William Cullen Bryant

If you violate Nature's laws, you are your own prosecuting attomey, judge, jury, and hangman.
Luther Burbank

Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands moum.
Robert Bums

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the retum of the birds, and the early momings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
Rachel Carson