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| Jimmy Carter
"I personally don't think that frequent playing of the national anthem downplays its importance. No matter how often I hear the national anthem, I'm always stirred within myself toward more intense feelings of patriotism and a realization of what our nation stands for. And I think for audiences at sports events to hear the national anthem played is good and not contrary to the influence that the national anthem has on all of us.""I was on the varsity basketball team in high school and, when I was in submarines, I was the pitcher on our baseball team. I learned there, obviously, that you have to be mutually dependent to achieve an identifiable goal, and you have to learn how to accept either defeat or victory with some degree of equanimity and look to the next contest with hope and anticipation. I think you have to yield sometimes your own selfish aspirations for the common good and be able to deal with one another in an open, sometimes competitive way, but not a personally antagonistic way. I think those are some of the lessons that you learn from team sports and I hope that I remember them."Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint. For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are. |
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