Jimmy Carter: “He taught us to live up to our highest principles of freedom and equal justice.”

Carter says the animosity directed at the president over health care, the big bailouts, is being driven because Mr. Obama is a black man.

That our country for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned basic principles of human rights.

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.

All of us must learn to waste less energy.