"We call on all members of America's religious……" — William Sloane Coffin
"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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49 Quotes by William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin has 49 quotes on this site.
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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a…
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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life…
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Unity is not something we are called to create; it's something we are called to recognize.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another…
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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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I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
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In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have…
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the…
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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