I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
JIMMY CARTERWe’ve got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.
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We’ve got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.
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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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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
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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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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
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The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with…greater joy, peace, and happiness.
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For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
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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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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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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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