"Howard Thurman" was an influential African American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. He was Dean of Chapel at Howard University and Boston University for more than two decades, wrote 21 books, and in 1944 helped found a multicultural church. Thurman, along with Mordecai Johnson and Vernon Johns, was considered one of the three greatest African-American preachers in the early 20th-century.

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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.

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

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.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

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.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve centre 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.

Follow the grain in your own wood.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.