James Earl Carter

Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter working with another homeowner thru Habitat for Humanity in 1992 Washington, D.C.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

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

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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

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A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

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