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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.

Jimmy Carter

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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Choice End Leadership Male Religious Teaching Truth
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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Care Day Important Remove Run Value
Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
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Existence Life Opportunity Peaceful Right Suffering
I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
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Kindness Myself Place Position Service
Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
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Effect Spirit Wind
I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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Character Farmer Heart Myself
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
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Art Boundary Language Love Music Nature Social Transcendence
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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Compassionate Guide Important Justice Life Light See Truth
Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
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Community Division Nation
We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must.
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Change Choice Suffering Togetherness Work
I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
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Challenge Constant Thinking War
I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
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Conflict Environmental Nature Place Water
It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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Determination Failure Fear Necessary
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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Country Myself Strength Wisdom World
Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
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Answer Faith Final Necessary
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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Leadership War Weapon World

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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