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

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

As I am today, I was concerned about human rights, and I was concerned about the well-being of the working people of this country,