Jimmy Carter Quotes

Biography: Jimmy Carter is known for being the 39th President of the United State... more Biography: Jimmy Carter is known for being the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He focused on human rights and energy policy during his presidency. After leaving office, Carter became a global humanitarian, working with the Carter Center to advance democracy, health, and human rights worldwide. less

"Everyone is jealous of what you got, but no one is jealous of how you got it""If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.""We simply must have faith in democracy. To protect ourselves, we must turn to international agreements, international laws, international institutions and understandings.""You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.""I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.""We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.""We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes and we must.""When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.""America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.""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 to live together in peace by killing each other's children""The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices""Government is a human institution, created by human beings, mainly for the purpose of instituting and maintaining certain types of order among humans""We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon""The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation""The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself—always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity""We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles""We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams"

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