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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.

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
Jr.
Freedom
Birthright
Sold
Mess
National
Security
Justice

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Jesus is both a mirror to our humanity and a window to divinity, a window revealing as much of God as is given mortal eyes to see. When Christians see Christ empowering the weak, scorning the powerful, healing the wounded, and judging their tormentors, we are seeing transparently the power of God at work.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
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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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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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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?
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Without love, violence will change the world it will change it into a more violent one.
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.
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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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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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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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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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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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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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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
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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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