Our social and political progress has been based on one fundamental principle, the value and importance of the individual.
Based on this knowledge of Georgians, North and South, rural and urban, liberal and conservative, I say to you, quite frankly, that the time for racial discrimination is over.
These are not just my and they will not be my accomplishments, but the affirmation of our nation's continuing moral strength. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns.
But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things that means does not satisfy our longing for meaning.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil, but no matter how necessary, it is always evil, never a good.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it's the other way around. Human rights invented America.
From the 1979 national address that came to be known as the “malaise” speech to his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, ...