Jimmy Carter: “Peace and understanding can be achieved only if we are willing to put aside our differences and join together.”

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

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.

This is a very wise and very courageous thing for President Obama to do. And in my opinion, is long overdue.

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.