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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
William Sloane Coffin
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William Sloane Coffin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 12
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It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.
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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.
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Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.
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There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
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The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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Jesus is both a mirror to our humanity and a window to divinity, a window revealing as much of God as is given mortal eyes to see. When Christians see Christ empowering the weak, scorning the powerful, healing the wounded, and judging their tormentors, we are seeing transparently the power of God at work.
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We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.
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