You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
JIMMY CARTERBecause 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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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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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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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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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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
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Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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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’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.
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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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God always answers prayers. Sometimes it’s ‘yes.’ Sometimes the answer is ‘no.’ Sometimes it’s ‘you gotta be kidding.
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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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