"A preacher, teacher, scholar, author, poet, and mystic, Howard Thurman was one of the leading lights of the black intellectual community in the twentieth century and an inspiration to the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He helped introduce to the movement the ideals of nonviolence as espoused by Indian nationalist Mahatma Gandhi and was instrumental in defining the role of black churches in the struggle for social change. As Earl Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise, wrote shortly after Thurman's death in 1981, "Howard Thurman believed that the central role of religion is to bring people together and promote harmony in human relations. He advocated a 'liberation theology' long before the term came into popular use.... [He] worked behind the scenes, carefully putting together a theology that would reconcile the struggles of the civil rights era with the spiritual concerns of the church."
-- from wikipedia.com
Food for thought on this happy Wednesday.
2 comments:
I just read this quote last week but I cannot for the life of me remember where...Now I need to find it because I can use that one! Thanks dear! Hugs and Kisses!
this quote is right on! love it!
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