Jimmy Carter March On Washington Speech: 'There's A Tremendous Agenda Ahead Of Us'

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Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — Former President Jimmy Carter is paying tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on this historic anniversary, even as he extols the nation to continue to work for a better America.

Carter joined members of the King family as well as President Barack Obama at a 50th anniversary ceremony on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

Carter railed against a recent Supreme Court decision that effectively erased a key anti-discrimination provision of the Voting Rights Act. He bemoaned a nation awash in guns with too many black Americans in prison.

Carter said he knows how King would have reacted, adding that "there's a tremendous agenda ahead of us."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/jimmy-carter-march-on-washington-speech_n_3831402.html

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Jimmah!

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[Tx4obama]

1. Jimmy Carter full speech video below

[David__77]

2. I like Jimmy Carter, and hope he goes to Damascus to promote peace.

I could see it happening. If he could do it in Pyongyang, he can do it in Syria.

[Peace Patriot]

3. It is totally amazing to have such a truth-teller as a former President.

He was, far and away, our greatest full-term* president since FDR, and you gotta wonder about the forces that brought him down in 1980--the Reagan traitors and the oil corporations--and what they have done to us since.

One of the most amazing things about Carter is that he DOESN'T STOP. He was not defeated in his soul. He is a great, great MAN as well as having been a great president, and has gone on fighting for civil and human rights as his life work, with quite stunning accomplishments such as his vital work on the democratization of Latin America.

Carter is reported to have recently said: "America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time."

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/16043-jimmy-carter-defends-snowden-says-u-s-has-no-functioning-democracy

That is the hard truth that we must face.



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*(Recommended: James Douglass' "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters." If JFK had lived, he would have been the OTHER greatest president of the modern era, for, what he ended up seeking (didn't start out that way, but ended up that way)--so brilliantly established by Douglass--why he died and why it matters--was an END to the "Cold War," scuttling of all nuclear weapons, the end of all of the "brushfire" wars that the CIA was instigating, and world peace, the condition needed for social justice. Douglass also establishes, beyond any question, that the CIA assassinated him for this reason.)

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4. I do wish he would run for his second term. (Yeah, I know. Just sayin'). nt

[bullwinkle428]

5. I hope Pres. Obama is taking notes to see just how amazing his

post-Presidency could be when he looks at Jimmy Carter!