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* I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination. … Government should not break up a neighborhood on a numerical basis. As soon as the Government does, the white folks flee.
** Widely criticized remarks intended as support of open-housing laws, but specifying opposition to government efforts to "inject black families into a white neighborhood just to create some sort of integration" (April 1976), quoted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130814013247/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914056,00.html "THE CAMPAIGN: Candidate Carter: I Apologize"] in [[Time (magazine)|''TIME'' Magazine]] (19 April 1976)
* '''I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.'''
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| ''A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power'' (2014)}}
{{quote| '''It would be a fruitless search to look through the Scriptures and find one single instance where [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]] did not treat women either equal or superior to men.'''
| As quoted in [http://www.religionnews.com/2014/05/28/jimmy-carter-3-0-building-post-presidential-legacy/ "Jimmy Carter 3.0: Building a post-presidential legacy" by Adelle M. Banks, in ''Religion News Service'' (28 May 2014)]}}
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* I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.
* '''The unchanging principles of life predate modern times.''' I worship [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]] Christ, whom we Christians consider to be the Prince of Peace. As a Jew, he taught us to cross religious boundaries, in service and in love. He repeatedly reached out and embraced Roman conquerors, other Gentiles, and even the more despised Samaritans. <br>Despite theological differences, all great religions share common commitments that define our ideal secular relationships. I am convinced that Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, and others can embrace each other in a common effort to alleviate human suffering and to espouse peace. <br>But the present era is a challenging and disturbing time for those whose lives are shaped by religious faith based on kindness toward each other. '''We have been reminded that cruel and inhuman acts can be derived from distorted theological beliefs, as suicide bombers take the lives of innocent human beings, draped falsely in the cloak of God's will. With horrible brutality, neighbors have massacred neighbors in Europe, Asia, and Africa. <br>In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value. We deny personal responsibility when we plant landmines and, days or years later, a stranger to us — often a child – is crippled or killed. From a great distance, we launch bombs or missiles with almost total impunity, and never want to know the number or identity of the victims.'''
* '''The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now seventy-five times richer than those who live in the ten poorest ones, and the separation is increasing every year, not only between nations but also within them.'''
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* I never felt that my dedication to military service was a violation of my faith in [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]] Christ, the Prince of Peace.
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