May I become an unfailing store for the poor and serve them with manifold things for their need. May I quench with rains of food and drink the anguish of hunger and thirst.…. May I be a balm to the sick, their healer and servitor ‘til sickness come never again. We ourselves must tread the path, others only show the way. No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may. In an earlier sermon that included quotations from all the world’s major religions, Thurman read this passage from the Buddhist scriptures: “By ourselves is evil done, by ourselves we cease from wrong, by ourselves become we pure. The Buddhist emphasis on compassion was a religious feature which he always affirmed. Sermon, “Violence and Non-Violence,” July 14, 1963, Howard Thurman Papers, Boston University.
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