Jimmy Carter Quotes

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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.…
• You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
• We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
• Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
• 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…
• We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
• We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
• America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
• If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
• I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
• I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
• A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied…
• There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding…
• Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
• I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
• We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United…
• Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones,…
• I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
• Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
• We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

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