Martin’s real dream was to be a preacher at this church.

really helped bail out the civil-rights movement.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

We’ve changed in the sense that we flipped – and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

Slavery didn’t break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let’s make America work, let’s make...

When I took the SAT, I didn’t get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I’ve got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different...

That does a significant amount of damage to you. People have such negative opinions of politicians. They always assume politicians are guilty.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

We say those who suffered here … your suffering is not in vain. We assure you that we, the children of the world, will learn new lessons. We will define the future, not hatred, not...

I was surprised and not surprised,

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it, and that’s true anywhere in the world

There’s no problem on the planet that can’t be solved without violence. That’s the lesson of the civil rights movement.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

To find people who don’t want anything is rare.

For those who care about the poor, it is time to step up, speak out and join this national discussion.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn’t kill anybody and he didn’t get anyone killed.

From my discussions with Michael, his finances were structured precisely according to his wishes. I understand the money is exactly where it is supposed to be.

It’s not just a lack of preparedness. I think the easy answer is to say that these are poor people and black people and so the government doesn’t give a damn. That’s OK, and there...

There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.

You have to start living for something that’s worth dying for.

Can wealth give happiness? Look around and see, what gay distress! What splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

I like my life. I’ve had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it’s an...

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

If I hadn’t been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn’t have wanted me.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

it was an accident.

I think the whole movement, both in the black community and in the federal government and in big business, is sort of floundering.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

I see the war problem as an economic problem, a business problem, a cultural problem, an educational problem – everything but a military problem. There’s no military solution. There is a business solution – and...

I’m not ashamed of Salt Lake for inviting people to come to school and giving scholarships, … I’m proud of them for doing it.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

It would be no different than it is here. The Carter Center runs the programs and the parks service maintains the grounds and the buildings.

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can’t begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once...

For most of the world, civil and political rights… come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

I had to get a second passport in a hurry.

Walking around in that suit and tie, he was in some danger. He was just another nigger, to put it bluntly, although I don’t think he realized that.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

I wasn’t predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn’t want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn’t...

She was strong if not stronger than he was.

If you’re a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don’t make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.