The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
JIMMY CARTERLife is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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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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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.
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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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Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
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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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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’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 must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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