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.
JIMMY CARTERThis 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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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 will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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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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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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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 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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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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Trust is very much a part of our democracy.
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It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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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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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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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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