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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. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything. ↗

— Nick Carter

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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. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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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 always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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