We both believe that people in every part of the world, under every economic system, should have democratic rights to participate in their own government and to shape their own destiny.
Jimmy Carter: “We both believe that people in every part of the world, under every economic system, should have democratic rights to…”
On the recordMarch 27, 1978
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