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.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

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

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

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

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

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

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.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Income inequity has to be addressed.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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.

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

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.

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

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

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

We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

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 minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

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

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

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

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.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

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

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

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.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

I’m a warrior for the middle class.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who’s spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

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.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

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

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

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

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.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

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.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.