I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

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

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

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.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

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

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute – a white skin.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

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.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

We’ve never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

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

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.