Jimmy Carter: “I call upon all Americans to honor these observances with ceremonies and activities.”

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

I don't think the administration has ever picked up the ball, much less dropped it.

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.

I recognize that Israel is a wonderful democracy with freedom of speech and equality of treatment under the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis.