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The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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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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