I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
JIMMY CARTERWe have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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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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God always answers prayers. Sometimes it’s ‘yes.’ Sometimes the answer is ‘no.’ Sometimes it’s ‘you gotta be kidding.
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Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
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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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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 want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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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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Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
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What are the things that you can’t see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love…They’re the guiding lights of a life.
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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of … permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
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