Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
JIMMY CARTERYou 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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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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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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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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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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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The truth is that male religious leaders have had – and still have – an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.
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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 say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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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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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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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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