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
Prostitution thrives in the United States. We focus in this country on punishing the girls. For every brothel owner or pimp or… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The Southern Baptist Convention, as you know, decided in the year 2000 that women should not be permitted to be pastors or… — 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
