God always answers prayers. Sometimes it’s ‘yes.’ Sometimes the answer is ‘no.’ Sometimes it’s ‘you gotta be kidding.
JIMMY CARTERWe know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.
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The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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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’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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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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We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
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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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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
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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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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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