I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
JIMMY CARTERI think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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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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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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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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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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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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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
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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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Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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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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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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