Jimmy Carter: “I don't believe that the peace treaties can have their full, permanent, beneficial impact if they are just based on a…”

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.

But inside Palestine, outside of Israel, where the Israelis occupying forces are there, the persecution and deprivation of the Palestinians is horrendous.

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

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.