A Brief Foreword from Doug Draper at Niagara At Large
Posted February 23rd, 2025
The former U.S, President Jimmy Carter on the site of a Habitat for Humanity project, one of many across the United States and Canada were he volutered his work
Once in a while, when I come across quote from a significant other that seems relevant to the challenges we are facing in our lives and communities today, I hope you don’t mind if I share them with you on this site.
This time the words were spoken some years ago by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who died this past December at age 100.
They are words that perfectly reflect the decency and humanity of the person who spoke them – a person who , in this dark and ugly age of Trump, is hard to imagine ever resided in the White House.
And, indeed, they are words that speak to the crisis of homelessness and lack of affordable food and housing, the shortage of primary and emergency health care services and to so many other challenges we face right here in Niagara and other regions of our province and country today.
Here are those words from the late, ever so great Jimmy Carter –
“My concept of human rights has grown to include not only the rights to live in peace, but also to adequate health care, shelter, food and economic opportunities.”
Amen to you Jimmy and forever Rest in Peace.
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Doug Draper, Niagara At Large
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