We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace.
JC
Jimmy CarterNobel Peace Prize lecture (2002)
About Jimmy Carter
39th U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize winner known for humanitarian work. (1924-2024)
More from Jimmy Carter
- A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others.A Government as Good as Its People (1977)
- Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.Inaugural Address (1977)
- The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.Nobel Peace Prize lecture (2002)
- Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished.Statement on the death of Rosalynn Carter (2023)
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- You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.Louise Hay
- Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back.Louise Hay
- With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.Abraham Lincoln
- Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.George Washington
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