Oscar Levant
American comedian, composer, pianist and actor (1906-1972)
Howard Thurman
American theologian, educator, and civil rights mentor
Howard Washington Thurmanwas an American author, philosopher, theologian, Christian mystic, educator, and civil rights leader. As a prominent religious figure, he played a leading role in many social justice movements and organizations of the twentieth century.
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Howard Washington Thurmanwas an American author, philosopher, theologian, Christian mystic, educator, and civil rights leader. As a prominent religious figure, he played a leading role in many social justice movements and organizations of the twentieth century. Thurman’s theology of radical nonviolence influenced and shaped a generation of civil rights activists, and he was a key mentor to leaders within the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King Jr.
Thurman served as dean of Rankin Chapel at Howard University from 1932 to 1944 and as dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University from 1953 to 1965. In 1944, he co-founded, along with Alfred Fisk, the first major interracial, interdenominational church in the United States.
8 Quotes by Howard Thurman
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Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.
Howard ThurmanAmerican theologian, educator, and civil rights mentor
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A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
Howard ThurmanAmerican theologian, educator, and civil rights mentor
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Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
Howard ThurmanAmerican theologian, educator, and civil rights mentor
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During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
Howard ThurmanAmerican theologian, educator, and civil rights mentor
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At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
Howard ThurmanAmerican theologian, educator, and civil rights mentor
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There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
Howard ThurmanAmerican theologian, educator, and civil rights mentor
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He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.
Howard ThurmanAmerican theologian, educator, and civil rights mentor
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Twilight – a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.
Howard ThurmanAmerican theologian, educator, and civil rights mentor