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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation

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
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Weapons
Religious
Unequivocal
Condemnation
Merit
Nuclear

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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.
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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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There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.
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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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The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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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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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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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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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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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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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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