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.
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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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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Because 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.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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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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The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with…greater joy, peace, and happiness.
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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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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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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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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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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
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We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.
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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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Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.
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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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One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.
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Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
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It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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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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Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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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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