When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
JIMMY CARTEREvery 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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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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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Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
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I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
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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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You always get back much more than you give.
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I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
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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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Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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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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I’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.
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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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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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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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Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
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