Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
JIMMY CARTERI’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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You always get back much more than you give.
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We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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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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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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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.
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Throughout my life, I’ve seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people’s lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.
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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
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