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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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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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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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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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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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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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We are not loved because we are valued we are valued because we are loved.
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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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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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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
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