Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
JIMMY CARTERAnd 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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
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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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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.
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Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
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You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
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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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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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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.
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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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I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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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’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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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.
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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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