Jimmy Carter Quotes About Discrimination

Quotes about: Discrimination

• We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, War, Memorable

  Jimmy Carter, United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration, Gerald R. Ford (1978). “The Presidential campaign, 1976”

• Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Teaching, Gay

• I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

  Jimmy Carter

  Time, Racism, Discrimination

  Jimmy Carter (2016). “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

• Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

  Jimmy Carter

  Self, Racism, Gay Marriage

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

• Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.

  Jimmy Carter

  Opportunity, Men, Justice

  Jimmy Carter, United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration, Gerald R. Ford (1978). “The Presidential campaign, 1976”

• We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hate, Gay, Men

• I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.

  Jimmy Carter

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

  The National Security Archive Interview, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

• The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

  Jimmy Carter

  People, World, Discrimination

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