I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
JIMMY CARTERBecause (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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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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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What are the things that you can’t see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love…They’re the guiding lights of a life.
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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’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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God always answers prayers. Sometimes it’s ‘yes.’ Sometimes the answer is ‘no.’ Sometimes it’s ‘you gotta be kidding.
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must.
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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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Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
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Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
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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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The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with…greater joy, peace, and happiness.
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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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