We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
JIMMY CARTERI’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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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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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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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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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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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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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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I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.
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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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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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