Jimmy Carter
Former President Jimmy Carter died Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100. Carter was elected president of the United States in 1976 and served one term. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. The Plains, Georgia, native was a U.S. Navy submarine commander, peanut farmer, state senator and Georgia governor.
In 1982, Carter became University Distinguished Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and with his wife, Rosalynn Carter, founded The Carter Center. The nonpartisan center works to resolve conflict, promote democracy, protect human rights and prevent disease and other afflictions.
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Both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president in 2016 are "quite unpopular."
Atlanta is the No. 1 trading point for sexual slavery in America. Between 100 and 200 girls are sold into slavery in Atlanta every month.
Women in the U.S. get 23 percent less pay than men for the same exact work.
The number of African-American men in prison has increased fivefold since he left office.
Women in the United States are paid about 70 percent of what men earn for the same work.
"(T)he United States government and its Constitution says that people can be put to death."
The Southern Baptist Convention voted 13 years ago "that women were inferior and had to be subservient to their husbands."
"When I ran against incumbent President Gerald Ford, you know how much money we raised? None."
Said that his batting average with Congress is higher than every other president since Dwight D. Eisenhower except Lyndon Johnson.