The truth is that male religious leaders have had – and still have – an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.
JIMMY CARTERLife is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
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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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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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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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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
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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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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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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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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
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