Jimmy Carter actually said...

Martin Luther King, Jr. was the conscience of his generation.

Presidential Medal of Freedom Announcement of Award to the Rev. Martin Luther King, It., and Dr. Jonas E. Salk.

07/03/1977

More Jimmy Carter Quotes

Nobody deserves this ceremony and this honor more than Frances Perkins.

We must never forget the terrible fruits of bigotry and hatred.

I vowed then, and I repeat now, that the world must never permit such evil to occur again.

The trend of civilization itself is forever upward.