Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
JIMMY CARTERWe must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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 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 should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
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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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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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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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Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
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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 have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
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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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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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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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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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