Jimmy Carter: Citations en anglais
Source: A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Source: A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Source: Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith
Source: A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Source: A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
Source: A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
Source: A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
Source: Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Source: A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
Source: NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter
Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
“We cannot know the mystery of the future.”
Variante: We cannot ignore our gift of the future.
Source: Just Peace: A Message of Hope
Message to Congress (2 August 1977)
Presidency (1977–1981), 1977
Presidency (1977–1981), Farewell Address (1981)
Contexte: Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world — water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution — if we tackle them with courage and foresight.
“To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.”
We will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards here at home, for we know that the trust which our Nation earns is essential to our strength.
Presidency (1977–1981), Inaugural Address (1977)
“War and good health are incompatible.”
There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war."
In reference to his effort to eradicate Guinea worm disease in Africa.[Jimmy Carter Vs. Guinea Worm: Sudan Is Last Battle, CBS, December 27, 2010, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/25/ap/health/main7183775.shtml, http://web.archive.org/web/20101228060534/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/25/ap/health/main7183775.shtml, December 28, 2010]
Post-Presidency
Post-Presidency, DNC address (2004)
Contexte: After 9/11, America stood proud -- wounded, but determined and united. A cowardly attack on innocent civilians brought us an unprecedented level of cooperation and understanding around the world. But in just 34 months, we have watched with deep concern as all this good will has been squandered by a virtually unbroken series of mistakes and miscalculations.
Unilateral acts and demands have isolated the United States from the very nations we need to join us in combating terrorism.
Let us not forget that the Soviets lost the Cold War because the American people combined the exercise of power with adherence to basic principles, based on sustained bipartisan support.
We understood the positive link between the defense of our own freedom and the promotion of human rights.
But recent policies have cost our nation its reputation as the world's most admired champion of freedom and justice.
What a difference these few months of extremism have made.
The United States has alienated its allies, dismayed its friends, and inadvertently gratified its enemies by proclaiming a confused and disturbing strategy of preemptive war.
Presidency (1977–1981), Farewell Address (1981)
Contexte: Within our system of government every American has a right and duty to help shape the future course of the United States.
Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society. Now as in our past, only the understanding and involvement of the people through full and open debate can help to avoid serious mistakes and assure the continued dignity and safety of the nation.
“The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.”
Presidency (1977–1981), Farewell Address (1981)
Contexte: I have just been talking about forces of potential destruction that mankind has developed, and how we might control them. It is equally important that we remember the beneficial forces that we have evolved over the ages, and how to hold fast to them.
One of those constructive forces is enhancement of individual human freedoms through the strengthening of democracy, and the fight against deprivation, torture, terrorism and the persecution of people throughout the world. The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color, nation or language.
Those who hunger for freedom, who thirst for human dignity, and who suffer for the sake of justice — they are the patriots of this cause.
I believe with all my heart that America must always stand for these basic human rights — at home and abroad. That is both our history and our destiny.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America.
Ours was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded explicitly on such an idea. Our social and political progress has been based on one fundamental principle — the value and importance of the individual. The fundamental force that unites us is not kinship or place of origin or religious preference. The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.
Post-Presidency, Nobel lecture (2002)
Contexte: The world has changed greatly since I left the White House. Now there is only one superpower, with unprecedented military and economic strength. The coming budget for American armaments will be greater than those of the next fifteen nations combined, and there are troops from the United States in many countries throughout the world. Our gross national economy exceeds that of the three countries that follow us, and our nation's voice most often prevails as decisions are made concerning trade, humanitarian assistance, and the allocation of global wealth. This dominant status is unlikely to change in our lifetimes.
Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom, and we have consistently reached out to the international community to ensure that our own power and influence are tempered by the best common judgment.
Within our country, ultimate decisions are made through democratic means, which tend to moderate radical or ill-advised proposals. Constrained and inspired by historic constitutional principles, our nation has endeavored for more than two hundred years to follow the now almost universal ideals of freedom, human rights, and justice for all.
“We cast this message into the cosmos.”
Presidency (1977–1981)
Contexte: We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some — perhaps many – may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message:
