Jimmy Carter: “I urge schools and communities throughout this Nation to encourage the study of our past.”

All of us owe them our gratitude and respect.

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

An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.

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