Jimmy Carter: “This is a fairly modest program, but it can have a profound impact.”

Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

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.

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