At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending ‚don’t ask, don’t tell,‘ making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.