Includes bibliographical references (p. 7-8).

“In those long midnight hours when morning seemed weeks, if not years, away, the words of Howard Thurman have kept watch with me.” — Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Thurman’s best contribution was his ability, before many other people were doing it in our culture, to bring together the inner life, the life of passion, the life of fire, with the external life, the life of politics.” — Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago

Howard Thurman, minister, philosopher, civil rights activist, has been called ‘one of the greatest spiritual resources of this nation’. His encounters with Gandhi in India helped instill his commitment to nonviolence. This book features some of this writings.