as i stated at the kennedy library and dedication ceremony, quote, as a southerner, as a georgiian, i saw firsthand how the moral leadership of the kennedy administration helped to undo the wrongs that grew out of our nation's history, unquote. and i suggested that the struggle to promote equal rights and opportunities for all is ongoing and it must be shaped by the following principals. we're all americans. we're all children of the same god. racial violence and racial hatred can have no place among us. and that the moral impurity of those who led the march for civil rights during our lifetimes still remains with us today. having grown up on a farm with only black play mates and neighbors i recognized the blight of racial discrimination and made human rights the foundation of our foreign policy when i was president. since then and i work at the carter center the broadest definition of human rights has been the umbrella under which all our projects have been conducted. including peace, freedom, democracy, and the provision of shelt, food, education, health care, self-respect, and hope