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The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
In 2002, President Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize for his dedicated efforts for peaceful solutions to advance human rights and delivered this inspiring lecture—now published in ebook form.
On October 11, 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 was Jimmy Carter, making him the first American-born laureate since Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the prize in 1967. President Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 2002, and delivered this inspiring lecture.
On October 11, 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 was Jimmy Carter, making him the first American-born laureate since Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the prize in 1967. President Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 2002, and delivered this inspiring lecture.
20 pages, Hardcover
First published December 10, 2002
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James Earl Carter, Junior, known as Jimmy, the thirty-ninth president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, creditably established energy-conservation measures, concluded the treaties of Panama Canal in 1978, negotiated the accords of Camp David between Egypt and Israel in 1979, and won the Nobel Prize of 2002 for peace.
Ronald Wilson Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, the incumbent, in the presidential election of 1980.
He served and received. Carter served two terms in the senate of Georgia and as the 76th governor from 1971 to 1975.
Carter created new Cabinet-level Department of education. A national policy included price decontrol and new technology. From 1977, people reduced foreign oil imports one-half to 1982. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the second round of strategic arms limitation talks (SALT). Carter sought to put a stronger emphasis on human rights in 1979. People saw his return of the zone as a major concession of influence in Latin America, and Carter came under heavy criticism.
Iranian students in 1979 took over the American embassy and held hostages, and an attempt to rescue them failed; several additional major crises, including serious fuel shortages and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, marked the final year of his tenure. Edward Moore Kennedy challenged significantly higher disapproval ratings of Carter for nomination of the Democratic Party before the election of 1980. Carter defeated Kennedy for the nomination lost the election to Ronald Wilson Reagan, a Republican.
Carter left office and with Rosalynn Smith Carter, his wife, afterward founded the nongovernmental center and organization that works to advance human rights. He traveled extensively to conduct, to observe elections, and to advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations. He, a key, also figured in the project of habitat for humanity. Carter particularly vocalized on the Palestinian conflict.
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James Earl Carter, Junior, known as Jimmy, the thirty-ninth president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, creditably established energy-conservation measures, concluded the treaties of Panama Canal in 1978, negotiated the accords of Camp David between Egypt and Israel in 1979, and won the Nobel Prize of 2002 for peace.
Ronald Wilson Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, the incumbent, in the presidential election of 1980.
He served and received. Carter served two terms in the senate of Georgia and as the 76th governor from 1971 to 1975.
Carter created new Cabinet-level Department of education. A national policy included price decontrol and new technology. From 1977, people reduced foreign oil imports one-half to 1982. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the second round of strategic arms limitation talks (SALT). Carter sought to put a stronger emphasis on human rights in 1979. People saw his return of the zone as a major concession of influence in Latin America, and Carter came under heavy criticism.
Iranian students in 1979 took over the American embassy and held hostages, and an attempt to rescue them failed; several additional major crises, including serious fuel shortages and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, marked the final year of his tenure. Edward Moore Kennedy challenged significantly higher disapproval ratings of Carter for nomination of the Democratic Party before the election of 1980. Carter defeated Kennedy for the nomination lost the election to Ronald Wilson Reagan, a Republican.
Carter left office and with Rosalynn Smith Carter, his wife, afterward founded the nongovernmental center and organization that works to advance human rights. He traveled extensively to conduct, to observe elections, and to advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations. He, a key, also figured in the project of habitat for humanity. Carter particularly vocalized on the Palestinian conflict.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/jimmyc...
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March 14, 2025
Superb. Crisp and meaningful.
November 22, 2014
I picked this book up at the library book shop because it looked like a quick but interesting and inspiring read. It lived up to my expectations. besides the I bvious rebuke I f George Bush for his eagerness to wage war, period, especially against Iraq, I was impressed by the way he quoted Ralph Bunche and seemed to foresee our current situation with ISIS/DAESH: "The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions that beget further war."
March 21, 2009
What lessons I have learned from the wisdom and writings of Carter. It is no surprise that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize or that he donated almost all of the money awarded to him to continue the quest for peace in the world.
October 10, 2011
I traveled to Plains, Ga. to attend the Sunday School lesson that former President Jimmy Carter offers at his church, and to visit his hometown. This bound copy of his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech was in the room where we stayed, so I read it to get in the spirit!
August 17, 2007
the complete Carter Center story; after pages of report on working to banish poverty, AIDS, homelessness, the Nobel laureate Jimmy dedicates 2 para for his teacher Miss Julia Coleman.
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June 22, 20101st edition, bookplate signed by author
May 29, 2012
A wonderful quick read that contains Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize speech. It is truly an inspiration.
February 2, 2016
By far our best ex-president.
July 2, 2017
A great quick read of President Carter's Nobel Prize acceptance speech from 2002. It was short but well worth the read.
June 13, 2022
such a mixed bag, truly emblematic of the man himself, but I suppose for an American president that’s still above and beyond the competition.
Jarring yet unsurprising to read Carter quote Ralph Bunche, “To suggest war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering” and then a page later demand Iraq eliminates their weapons of mass destruction, all said only a year after 9/11.
It’s nauseating. Yet his accomplishments are true and numerous. There’s no circling the square.
Jarring yet unsurprising to read Carter quote Ralph Bunche, “To suggest war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering” and then a page later demand Iraq eliminates their weapons of mass destruction, all said only a year after 9/11.
It’s nauseating. Yet his accomplishments are true and numerous. There’s no circling the square.
October 9, 2023
Brief and to the point
If you're looking for direction to do good in the world at large, to help improve social and global order, this short talk is full of pointers. It might inspire you to look around, find an institute, or a non-profit to be a part of and help.
This wonderful world of ours is full of human-made problems (along with natural disease, disasters and other ills) and it's up to us to stop making problems and to help further solutions.
If you're looking for direction to do good in the world at large, to help improve social and global order, this short talk is full of pointers. It might inspire you to look around, find an institute, or a non-profit to be a part of and help.
This wonderful world of ours is full of human-made problems (along with natural disease, disasters and other ills) and it's up to us to stop making problems and to help further solutions.
July 29, 2023
I read Jimmy Carter's memoir a few months ago and made a mental note to read this Nobel acceptance speech. Having read both, I was so struck by his commitment to dogged good work - the kind of good work that is not at all flashy and takes time and diligence. This man is truly one in a million and the grace and humility he used to navigate this world and improve it profoundly is inspiring.
July 7, 2021
President Carters Nobel Peace Prize lecture is inspiring to say the very least. In a brief, but powerful segment, the former president describes the fight for world peace, the accomplishments that the world has made, and how his faith has inspired him to work toward a better future.
January 9, 2025
This was a generous gift from the Carter Center at an event in DC to sign a condolence book for Jimmy Carter and I read it on line for the public viewing at the lie in state at the US Capitol late that day
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March 9, 2025A client from The Carter Center gave me this book at the end of their event. And so brutally angered his lessons are still not learned with this devastating quote: “We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
March 1, 2022
The one quote that resonates with me more than any other:
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”
December 6, 2023
Stirring words from an inspirational man.
December 17, 2023
The shortest thing I've read this year, and given recent current events, it is arguably more urgent and relevant than ever before.
January 1, 2025
I enjoyed the short speech.
January 28, 2025
there is a LOT to learn here
March 11, 2025
What a person.
September 28, 2015
This is just a twenty page "book," but Jimmy Carter's short lecture from 2002 within really is amazing.
To quote my favorite parts of the lecture would be to quote much of the entire lecture. But here are some of my very favorite lines:
"For powerful countries to adopt a principle of preventative war may well set an example that can have catastrophic consequences." -- if only George W. Bush felt the same way before he invaded Iraq, in the year after this speech was given.
"I am convinced that Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and others can embrace each other in a common effort to alleviate human suffering and to espouse peace. But the present era is a challenging and disturbing time for those whose lives are shaped by religious faith based on kindness toward each other. We have been reminded that cruel and inhuman acts can be derived from distorted theological beliefs, as suicide bombers take the lives of innocent human beings, draped falsely in the cloak of God's will."
"But tragically, in the industrialized world there is a terrible absence of understanding or concern about those who are enduring lives of despair and hopelessness."
To quote my favorite parts of the lecture would be to quote much of the entire lecture. But here are some of my very favorite lines:
"For powerful countries to adopt a principle of preventative war may well set an example that can have catastrophic consequences." -- if only George W. Bush felt the same way before he invaded Iraq, in the year after this speech was given.
"I am convinced that Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and others can embrace each other in a common effort to alleviate human suffering and to espouse peace. But the present era is a challenging and disturbing time for those whose lives are shaped by religious faith based on kindness toward each other. We have been reminded that cruel and inhuman acts can be derived from distorted theological beliefs, as suicide bombers take the lives of innocent human beings, draped falsely in the cloak of God's will."
"But tragically, in the industrialized world there is a terrible absence of understanding or concern about those who are enduring lives of despair and hopelessness."
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