"We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant……" — Jimmy Carter
"We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business."
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299 Quotes by Jimmy Carter
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that…
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you…
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good.…
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our…
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself…
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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