We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must.
JIMMY CARTERWe will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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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 measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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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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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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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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God always answers prayers. Sometimes it’s ‘yes.’ Sometimes the answer is ‘no.’ Sometimes it’s ‘you gotta be kidding.
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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
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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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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
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Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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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 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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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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Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
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Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
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