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“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.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Jesus #Teaching #Gay
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“America has always been a country of innovation and dynamism, entrepreneurship. And I think that one of the things that has made our country great too is its heterogeneous population where people come here from all over the world.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Country #Thinking #America
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“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Inspirational #Real #Patriotic
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“There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls - nothing else compares with that, in horror.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Girl #Baby #Abuse
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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.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Differences #Long #Generosity
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“My mother's influence to take on new challenges and do what I though was right even though sometimes the consequences politically speaking were not good. My mother was vivacious, she was full of life, she got up every morning looking forward to the day, trying to figure out what she could do that was innovative and unprecedented and maybe controversial.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Mother #Morning #Challenges
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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.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Running #Important #Care
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“I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president against Gerald Ford and later against Ronald Reagan we never referred to each other except as 'my distinguished opponent'. And had we criticised personally our opponent it would have been political suicide, we would have been castigated and condemned for it.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Suicide #Political #President
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“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Peace #Children #War
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“I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Real #Taken #Political
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“The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens - and honor its own previous commitments - by accepting its legal borders. All Arab neighbors must pledge to honor Israel's right to live in peace under these conditions.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Commitment #Government #Israel
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“There's always enough to fill up the headlines in a newspaper, the evening news broadcasts. I'm always grateful when I get the weekly news magazines on Monday morning and don't see my picture on the front.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Monday #Morning #Grateful
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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.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Responsibility #Pride #Past
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“It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that has been the enormous infusion of high quantities of money to campaigns - governors, Congress, president and the U.S. Senate.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Country #Democracy #President
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“America has no functioning democracy at this moment.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#America #Democracy #Moments
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“I'm going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I'm able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Long #Able #Carter
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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.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Inspirational #Peace #Children
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“Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Book #Way
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“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Beautiful #Dream #America
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“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.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Country #Demand #Serious
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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.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Rights #Support #Half
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“We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Country #War #United Nations
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“We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Faith #Confidence #America
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“The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Freedom #Struggle #Rights
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“It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Doors #Decision #Political
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“If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Christian #Country #Dollars
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“The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Heart #Israel #Issues
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“It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Inspirational #Life #Beauty
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“We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Gone #Produce #Goods
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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.”
-- Jimmy Carter
#Peace #War #Memorable
