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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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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New York City
New York
William Sloane Coffin
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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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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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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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God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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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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