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.
JIMMY CARTERLife is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
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I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
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Trust is very much a part of our democracy.
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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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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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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.
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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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Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
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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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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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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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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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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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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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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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