I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
JIMMY CARTERJesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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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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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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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.
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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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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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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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When I reflect upon my blessings during my very nice lifetime, I am inspired to make sure that I spend the balance of the days of my existence in a productive way.
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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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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
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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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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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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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Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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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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