We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
JIMMY CARTERYou always get back much more than you give.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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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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Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
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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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Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
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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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For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
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Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
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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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One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.
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Trust is very much a part of our democracy.
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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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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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Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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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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