My favorite quotation by Mr. Thurman is the following:"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
This message is powerful in that it charges mankind to abandon a search for pleasing the masses without having a true passion for what they are doing. Mr. Thurman through his work was influential in this way. He came alive in the community that he served and he is still alive in the legacy hat he left at Howard University, Boston University, and Morehouse College.
Undoubtedly, Mr. Thurman is one the most important religious leaders of our time, as he is held by Time Magazine. Mr. Thurman passed away in 1981 in San Francisco, California after many years of service. In his honor his papers have been archived as well as having an building at Boston University bear his namesake.
Howard Thurman remains as one of the most transformative figures in the Howard Universities history. Mr. Thurman was a distinguished author, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader. Mr. Thurman served as Dean of Theology and of Rankin Chapel at Howard University from 1932-1944. Upon graduation for Morehouse College at the top of his class Mr. Thurman expanded his scope of influence and scholastic research to the global front. Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and a friend of Martin Luther King Sr. (father of Martin Luther King Jr. his Morehouse Classmate) he was well respected during the civil rights era.
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