Jimmy Carter: “We share a great, common history with our friends and neighbors and visitors from Mexico.”

All of us owe them our gratitude and respect.

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.