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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
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New York City
New York
William Sloane Coffin
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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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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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We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.
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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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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.
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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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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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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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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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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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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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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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