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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

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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Equality Faith Inferior Play Prevent View Woman
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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Country Fact Faith Government Myself Prayer Religious
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
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Life Moments Wonder
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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Choice End Leadership Male Religious Teaching Truth
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.
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Country Demand Discussion Inheritance Problem Serious
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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Discrimination Myself Quite Race Time
Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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Effort Fruit Struggle
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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Knowledge Simplicity Solution Substitution
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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Country Human Invention Reality Right
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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Change Hold Principle Time
Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
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Consumption Ourselves Worship
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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Hands Intimidation Opinion People
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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Conflict Environmental Nature Place Water
A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
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Equality Fundamental Negotiation Process
One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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Greatness Leadership Nation Time
America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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Democracy Function Moments

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