Jimmy Carter: “I know the pressures that come on members of government to try to deal fairly with their own constituents and still look…”

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.

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

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.