Jimmy Carter: “I am shocked and saddened by the death today of U.S. District Judge John II. Wood, Jr., in San Antonio, Tex.”

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.

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.

I fear for our democracy.