Quote by Jimmy Carter
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human

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

Other quotes by Jimmy Carter

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation. – Jimmy Carter

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Freedom
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A fundamentalist cant bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality. – Jimmy Carter

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Equality
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Because I know about the Holy Land, Ive taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you cant bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well. – Jimmy Carter

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Peace
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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. – Thomas Jefferson

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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. – George Washington

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. – Woodrow Wilson

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