William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Quotes


"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible."
- William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
(Related: Hope, Nothing, Passion)

"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, Jr.
(Related: Life, Sports, Being, Exercise, Risk)

"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, Jr.
(Related: Life, Cause, Environment, Ignorance, Self, Violence)

"The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman."
- William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
(Related: Man, Woman)