When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
JIMMY CARTERI have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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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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All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.
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Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
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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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I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
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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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Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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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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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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Trust is very much a part of our democracy.
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