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 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 become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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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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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 have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
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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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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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I 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.
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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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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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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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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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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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