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| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Combat | ATK 30 DEF 90 SPR 99 SPD 60 INT 98 |
| Rank | Theologian / Mystic / Dean of Howard University School of Religion / Co-founder of the first major interracial church in the United States |
| Domain | Contemplative theology, mysticism, the inner life of the activist, nonviolence as spiritual practice |
| Alignment | Holy / Contemplative |
| Weakness | His mystical and contemplative emphasis was sometimes dismissed by activists who wanted more direct political engagement -- though King kept Thurman's *Jesus and the Disinherited* in his briefcase throughout the Montgomery campaign |
| Key Act | Born 1899 in segregated Daytona, Florida. Met Mohandas Gandhi in 1936 -- the first African American delegation to do so -- and brought back the strategic-spiritual case for nonviolence that would shape King's movement. Co-founded the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco (1944), one of the first intentionally interracial churches in America. Published *Jesus and the Disinherited* (1949), which Martin Luther King Jr. carried with him during the Montgomery boycott |
| Source | Thurman, *Jesus and the Disinherited* (1949); *With Head and Heart* (autobiography, 1979); Luther Smith, *Howard Thurman: The Mystic as Prophet* (1981) |
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Howard Thurman
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