The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
JIMMY CARTERBecause 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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
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Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill – do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.
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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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I’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.
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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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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.
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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 not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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