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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

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William Sloane Coffin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 12
Activist
Pastor
New York City
New York
William Sloane Coffin
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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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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
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To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age neither sex nor sexual preference race nor mind-set.
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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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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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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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Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.
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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.
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It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion the Bible seeks to open one.
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