Jimmy Carter: “Hope and perseverance are essential for achieving our goals and building a better future.”

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.

I fear for our democracy.

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

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.