I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
Interpretation
The quote advocates for gender equality and challenges outdated religious views on women's roles.
In this quote, Jimmy Carter asserts his belief in complete equality between men and women, arguing that certain biblical passages that dictate women's behavior are relics of the past. He suggests that these texts should not dictate contemporary life, emphasizing the need to evolve our understanding of gender roles in the context of modern society.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about gender equality at a women's rights forum.
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.
The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.
I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there.
If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no downside to it.
My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
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