To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
JIMMY CARTERI’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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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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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When I reflect upon my blessings during my very nice lifetime, I am inspired to make sure that I spend the balance of the days of my existence in a productive way.
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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 know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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