America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
JIMMY CARTERI am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
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Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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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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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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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 know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
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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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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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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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Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
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I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.
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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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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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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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