Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
JIMMY CARTERThe 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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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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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Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
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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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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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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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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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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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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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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
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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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I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
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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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