President Jimmy Carter completes 1st year of hospice: 'It's very powerful'
My grandfather was born in 1924. Had no running water, no electricity, and he grew up plowing fields behind a mule.
He lived to see both his life and this world transformed in so many ways. And through all of those changing times, he truly has clung to his unchanging principles
Nearly a decade ago, he had five melanoma tumors in his brain and liver, and we quoted the old gospel song that says he's going to "stay on the battlefield.
For his whole life he has been on the battlefield for peace, for human rights, for democracy, for the alleviation of human suffering
He has lived to see the Carter Center deploy an army of health workers, human rights workers, and democracy workers who are fighting disease, waging peace and building hope.
After 77 years of marriage, he was there for my grandmother until the end. He has seen and felt the outpouring of love from around the world
Last year, we collected nearly 20,000 birthday wishes from over 100 countries; and in tiny Plains, Georgia, that brought tears to his eyes