Jimmy Carter: “I think it's been a slow thing for us to get these ideas across.”

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

We share a belief that the church was to no way be confused with a political community, no bound to any political system.

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

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