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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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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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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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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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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It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion the Bible seeks to open one.
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The temptation to moralize is strong it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.
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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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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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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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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 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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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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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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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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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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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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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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