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I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.

Jimmy Carter

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
This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
JIMMY CARTER

Equality Faith Inferior Play Prevent View Woman
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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Argument Myself Thinking Time Wife Win
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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Country Fact Faith Government Myself Prayer Religious
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
You always get back much more than you give.
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Generosity Karma Yourself
We’ve got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.
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Cry Home Need Requirement Start Strength Talk White
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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Children Each Other Goodness Necessary Time
Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
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Marriage Myself People Personal Sexuality Word
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
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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Discrimination Myself Quite Race Time
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

Equality Fundamental Negotiation Process
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
Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
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Answer Faith Final Necessary
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
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Damage Drugs Possession
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.
JIMMY CARTER

Failure Freedom Generation Guide Pride Reach Space Young

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