Jimmy Carter Quotes

I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do – and I have done it – and God forgives me for it. Jimmy Carter

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. Jimmy Carter

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. Jimmy Carter

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. Jimmy Carter

If you are totally illiterate and living on $1 a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. Jimmy Carter

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense…human rights invented America. Jimmy Carter

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ. Jimmy Carter

Martin Luther King, Jr., was the conscience of his generation…He and I grew up in the same South, he the son of a clergyman, I the son of a farmer. We both knew from opposite sides, the invisible wall of racial segregation. Jimmy Carter