Rev. William Sloane Coffin
(1924-2006)

American Clergyman, Peace Activist
Gandhi Peace Award Winner

birthdate: June 1
birthplace:
New York City

QUOTES

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

"People in high places make me really angry — the way of corporations now are behaving, the way the United States government is behaving. What makes me angry is that they are so callous, really callous."

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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