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Jimmy Carter

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
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Care Day Important Remove Run Value
This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
JIMMY CARTER

Equality Faith Inferior Play Prevent View Woman
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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Hands Intimidation Opinion People
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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Compassionate Guide Important Justice Life Light See Truth
The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.
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Deal Government Powerful Privilege Test
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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Country Demand Discussion Inheritance Problem Serious
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
JIMMY CARTER

Chance Count Demand Difference Life Myself
We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.
JIMMY CARTER

Ability Alignment Each Other Face Faith Government Restore Simplicity
Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of … permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
JIMMY CARTER

Conservation Energy Permanent Preparation Quick
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
JIMMY CARTER

Each Other Live Togetherness
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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Aggression Angry Sick
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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Choice End Leadership Male Religious Teaching Truth
One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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Greatness Leadership Nation Time
A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
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Equality Fundamental Negotiation Process
I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
JIMMY CARTER

Character Farmer Heart Myself
Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
JIMMY CARTER

Marriage Myself People Personal Sexuality Word

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