When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Our goals are also the same, to have a just system of economics and politics, to let the people of the world… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself, and where they… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
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