Jimmy Carter is an American retired politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967.
Carter was born and raised in Plains, Georgia, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, and joined the U.S. Navy, serving in the submarine service. Afterward, he returned home, where he revived his family’s peanut-growing business.
He then manifested his opposition to racial segregation, supported the growing civil rights movement, and became an activist within the Democratic Party. He served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967 and was elected governor of Georgia in 1970.
As a dark-horse candidate not well known outside of Georgia, Jimmy Carter won the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and narrowly defeated Republican president Gerald Ford in the 1976 U.S. presidential election.
Carter is both the longest-lived president and the one with the longest post-presidency. He is also the third-oldest living person to have served as a nation’s leader.
In 2014, Carter wrote an explosive book about women’s rights violations and abuses in America. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reviewed the book as “a tour de force of the global abuse and manipulation of women” and commended Carter’s presentation of statistical data.”
The book is named “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, And Power”. Jimmy Carter says in this book, “Every year, 100,000 girls are sold as slaves in America where the owner of a brothel can buy girls – who are usually Latin American or African – at only 1000 dollars”.
He also refers to the rapes which occur in colleges where only one case out of 25 cases is reported. He goes on to say that only one percent of rapists are put to trial in the army.
He further writes in the book, “Another factor contributing to the abuse of women and girls is an acceptance of violence, from unwarranted armed combat to excessive and biased punishment for those who violate the law. In too many cases, we use violence as a first rather than a last resort, so that even deadly violence has become commonplace.”
He continues, “This claim that women are inferior before God spreads to the secular world to justify gross and sustained acts of discrimination and violence against them. This includes unpunished rape and other sexual abuse, infanticide of newborn girls and abortion of female fetuses, worldwide trafficking in women and girls, and so-called honor killings of innocent women who are raped, as well as the less violent but harmful practices of lower pay and fewer promotions for women and greater political advantages for men. I mentioned some notable achievements of women despite these handicaps and described struggles within my own religious faith.”
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