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James Earl Carter, Jr. (October 1, 1924 – December 29, 2024) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In 1982 he established the Carter Center, as a base for promoting human rights, democracy, finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts, and advancing economic and social development, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
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Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear.
Presidency (1977)
There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.
Our Endangered Values (2005)
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, … It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.
When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.
Our Endangered Values (2005)
The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color, nation or language.
Presidency (1977)
Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past.
Nobel lecture (2002)
The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.
Presidency (1977)
The battle for human rights — at home and abroad — is far from over.
Presidency (1977)
The world itself is now dominated by a new spirit.
Presidency (1977)
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.
Our Endangered Values (2005)
It would be a fruitless search to look through the Scriptures and find one single instance where Jesus did not treat women either equal or superior to men.
I want to make it clear, if there is ever a conflict (between environmental quality and economic growth), I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.
We've become now an oligarchy instead of a democracy. And I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards of the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.
The greater ease of travel and communication has not been matched by equal understanding and mutual respect.
Nobel lecture (2002)
We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
Presidency (1977)
It is clear that global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace, in harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus.
Nobel lecture (2002)
The reason for raising this is that the Israeli position in the past was that they would withdraw from the West Bank, and I believe that Prime Minister Begin left the Cabinet over this issue.
Presidency (1977)
We've always had a faith that the days of our children would be better than our own.
Presidency (1977)
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