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Howard Washington Thurman (November 18, 1899 – April 10, 1981) was an African-American author, philosopher, theologian, 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 movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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.

Center, Commitment, Lives, Mean, Purpose, Yield

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Delivered, Destruction, Fears, Literally

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

Destiny, Experience, Fate, Men, Raw, Uninvited

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

Dream, Enlarged, Hope, Horizon, New Horizons, Possibility

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.

Finding Your Path, Genuine, Sound, Waiting, Waits

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

Come, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Needs, People

A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.

Bigot, Commitment, Discipline, Idol, Idols, Person

Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God. . . . I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.

Communication, Disciples, Jesus, Prayer, Thing

Life wears down the edges of the mind.

Down, Edges, Mind, Wears

The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

Estimate, Feels, Men, Order, Use, Weapons

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

Guise, Hatred, Peace, Though, Times, War

Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.

Christmas, Facts, Merely, Quality, Symbol

There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.

Beneath, Courage, Events, Rivers, Significance, Spring

The movement of the Spirit of God in the hearts of men and women often calls them to act against the spirit of their times or causes them to anticipate a spirit which is yet in the making. In a moment of dedication they are given wisdom and courage to dare a deed that challenges and to kindle a hope that inspires.

Dedication, Heart, Men, Moment, Movement, Women

What the world need is people who have come alive.

Alive, Come, Needs, People

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.

Dark, Fade, Nature, Things, Twilight

keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

High, Keep, Moments, Resolve

Perfect love is long delayed.

Delayed, Long, Love, Love Is, Perfect

If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.

Epithet, Keep, Lose, Men, Order

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale. . . Love loves; this is its nature.

Demerit, Life, Loves, Marriage Love, Merit

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