Jimmy Carter: “We've still got a good country, we've got a good Government, it can be better, and that you and I together are trying to…”

We look on human rights as an ability to live in peace. And to believe that your future will be better than your past might be.

Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

There's only one chance and one life to count for something. And my faith tells me, or my faith demands, that I use whatever I have whenever I can, to make a difference in people's lives.

I say to you, quite frankly, that the time for racial discrimination is over.