Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of … permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
JIMMY CARTERFaith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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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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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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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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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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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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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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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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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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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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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill – do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.
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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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