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We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.

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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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The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
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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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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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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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In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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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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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, Let justice roll down like mighty waters, and quite another to work out the irrigation system.
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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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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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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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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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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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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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