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.
—William Sloane Coffin
Topics: Sports
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence – reverance for human life and the environment.
—William Sloane Coffin
Topics: Violence
I’m not OK, you’re not OK—and that’s OK.
—William Sloane Coffin
Topics: Acceptance, Awareness, Realization
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
—William Sloane Coffin
Topics: Hope, Motivation
I’m delighted that the future is unsure. That’s the way it should be.
—William Sloane Coffin
Topics: Doubt, Uncertainty
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. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure.
—William Sloane Coffin
Topics: Justice
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