My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.

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

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

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

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

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.