Harold Whitman

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

~ Harold Whitman (Is a fictional name....no one know's who really said this)



This quote sometimes is confused with Howard Thurman Whitman (1899 - April 10, 1981) was an influential American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. He was Dean of Theology and the chapels at Howard University and Boston University for more than two decades, wrote 20 books, and in 1944 helped found the first racially integrated, multicultural church in the United States.


However...Howard Thurman Whitman did say this,"In the conflicts between man and man, between group and group, between nation and nation, the loneliness of the seeker for community is sometimes unendurable. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste. Always he must know that the contradictions of life are not final or ultimate; he must distinguish between failure and a many-sided awareness so that he will not mistake conformity for harmony, uniformity for synthesis. He will know that for all men to be alike is the death of life in man, and yet perceive harmony that transcends all diversities and in which diversity finds its richness and significance." From The Search For Common Ground; An Inquiry Into The Basis Of Man's Experience Of Community.

Book: Feeding the Animals: Originally published in 1901.
Book:  Community:  The structure of belonging
Book: The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature by Jung
Book:  Creating Harmony: Conflict Resolution in Community

The Wall at Aida Camp, a video

The Apartheid Wall by Aida Refugee camp on the Northern edge of Bethlehem. On one side the crowded camp. In the other the Olive Groves stolen from Bethlehemites

Aida Refugee Camp, A documentary Film

a Documentary Film

A place to Play in Aida Refugee Camp

There is no room in Aida Camp for the children to play. The living spaces are cramped and surrounded by the new Israeli Security Wall. Most of the time, the children play in the dirt roads or at the community center. They used to play in the olive trees beyond the wall before the wall was constructed, the olive trees were once owned by an Aida citizen, before the Israeli State took the land from the family. The video was done by the organization: "Voices Beyond Walls"

Aida Refugee Camp and the necklace - video

A group of teenagers living in Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem reenact the arrest of one of their friends, who is 15 years old and being held without trial in an Israeli prison. The video was created by "Voices Beyond Walls"

To Aida Camp through Bethlehem Checkpoint

To get into Aida Camp you must first go into Bethlehem, then to Aida Camp. The process is something that can only be explained through Video. Even images do not express the difficulties that the local citizens must go through each and every day to continue to work on the Israeli side, at low wages. This video is only a small example, and you cannot view what goes on inside of the building, the continual locked gates, waiting and hearing over the loudspeaker in Hebrew what instructions to follow to get to the other side. Also, each and every time, one must provide their hand-prints going in and out of the border. The border was funded by the World Bank.

From Italy to Aida Camp: Pope Visit

A ceremony following the visit of the Aida refugee camp by Benedict XVI, near Bethlehem.