Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
JIMMY CARTERWhen people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.
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Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.
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What are the things that you can’t see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love…They’re the guiding lights of a life.
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We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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I believe that the boycott that we have against Cuba is counterproductive, and it also makes the twelve million or so Cuban people suffer unnecessarily just because of a foolish policy of the United States.
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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The truth is that male religious leaders have had – and still have – an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.
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One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.
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