Jimmy Carter: “Under the most difficult of circumstances you have performed your many duties superbly.”

All of us must learn to waste less energy.

I say to you, quite frankly, that the time for racial discrimination is over.

Our great nation now teeters on the brink of a widening abyss. Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

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.