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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

William Sloane Coffin

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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
Jr.
Charity
Road
Compassion
Justice

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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.
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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
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The temptation to moralize is strong it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.
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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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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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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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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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