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Rev. Howard Thurman: ‘The Preacher’s Preacher’

By Sean Yoes — 2021

Many argue the Black American struggle for freedom and justice in the 20th century was facilitated mainly via two paths: faith (the church) and the law (the courtroom).

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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Howard Thurman Lost Lectures - Love or Perish

Howard Thurman Lost Lectures - Love or Perish

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Howard Thurman
2019
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The Search for Common Ground

Howard Thurman writes about building community. He calls us at once to affirm our own identity, but also to look beyond that identity to that which we have in common with all of life.

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Howard Thurman
1986
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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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C. S. Lewis
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Where the Edge Gathers: Building a Community of Radical Inclusion

In Where the Edge Gathers, Flunder uses examples of persons most marginalized by church and society to illustrate the use of village ethics--knowing where the boundaries are when all things are exposed--and village theology--giving everyone a seat at the central meeting place or welcome table.

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Yvette Flunder
2005
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Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R.

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Robin D.G. Kelley
2003
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Salvation: Black People and Love

Written from both historical and cultural perspectives, Salvation takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African Americans. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery; relationships and marriage in Black life; the prose and poetry of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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bell hooks
2001
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Humankind: A Hopeful History

The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term success as a species.

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Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore (translator), Elizabeth Manton (translator)
2021
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