William Sloane Coffin

William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1924-2006) was a Protestant minister and political activist, participating in the Civil Rights movement and actively opposing the Vietnam War and supporting peace, among other platforms. 
At one point chaplain of Yale University, graduate Garry Trudeau would reference Rev. Coffin in his comic strip Doonesbury through recurring clergyman Rev. Scot Sloan (based on a composite of Coffin and his protege, minister Scotty McLennan). For the 1977 animated adaptation A Doonesbury Special (directed by John and Faith Hubley), Coffin voiced Rev. Sloan. As a public figure, the reverend appeared on Firing Line ("The Role of the Church Militant") and NET Journal and in later documentaries about Vietnam, the 1960s, and the career of Dr. Benjamin Spock.
==References==
*In Youth 68, among the quotations of authors, artists, and then-contemporary public figures, "Rev. William Sloan Coffin" (omitting the e) is the only one who is quoted twice. In a section examining morality, Coffin is quoted on how "nobody else, no government official, no clergyman, nobody can take the place of the responsibility of the individual citizen." He's also used for the final quotation, which itself references Psalms 37:11: "If your generation doesn't become a generation of hope, then you don't have to worry about the next generation. If we don't learn to be meek, there won't be anybody left to inherit the earth." Both quotes are spoken by reader Gordon Hunt.
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