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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.
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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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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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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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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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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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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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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