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Jimmy Carter

I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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Character Farmer Heart Myself
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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Compassionate Government Honesty Myself Nation People
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
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.
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Equality Fundamental Negotiation Process
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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Myself Public Religious Service Violation
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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Difference Nation Source Strength
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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Definition Human Identity Oneself
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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Different Ourselves People Sin
The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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Fear Humanity Prejudice Strong
One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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Greatness Leadership Nation Time
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.
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Education Oneself Right Security Support
Trust is very much a part of our democracy.
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Democracy Ourselves Trust
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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Country Demand Discussion Inheritance Problem Serious
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
Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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Effort Fruit Struggle
Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
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Answer Faith Final Necessary

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