"When the laws are written and administered by……" — Jimmy Carter
"When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing."
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Jimmy Carter
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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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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be…
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
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This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above…
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If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest…
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The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which…
— Donald James
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If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the…
— James A. Baldwin
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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
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Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of…
— John Calvin
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According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it…
— Gary Kleck
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The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did…
— Corinne Heline
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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as…
— Andrew Jackson
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Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
— Woody Allen
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