William Sloane Coffin

William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (born June 1, 1924) is a radical clergyman and long time peace activist with international stature. He was Chaplain of Yale University, Senior Minister at Riverside Church in New York City, and President of SANE/Freeze, a nuclear disarmament group, and has prominently opposed U.S. policy from the Vietnam War to the Iraq War.

Quotes by Coffin

(After 9/11): The U.S. government should have vowed "to see justice done, but by the force of law only, never by the law of force."

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"It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly."

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

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