William Sloane Coffin
Clergyman
1924-06-01
Quotes by William Sloane Coffin
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I also was persuaded that the woman most in need of liberation was the woman in every man just as the man most in need of liberation was the man in every woman.
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I also was persuaded that the woman most in need of liberation was the woman in every man just as the man most in need of liberation was the man in every woman.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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Diversity might be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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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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