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Posted: 2018-07-25T08:18:06Z | Updated: 2018-07-25T10:25:08Z

Former President Jimmy Carter said America is no longer a champion of basic human rights , at home or abroad.

The United States has already lost its place as a leader of protecting people and their human rights, Carter told the Human Rights Defenders Forum at The Carter Center in Atlanta on Tuesday.

As a superpower, the U.S. should be the champion of human rights in the world, Carter said, but he feared it had already lost its long-time commitment to the cause.

We are not the superpower because we have the largest military on earth or because we have the strongest economy in the world, said Carter. We should be a superpower because we espouse things that are important to everyone on earth and I think human rights are one of them.

The US has abandoned its position as a champion of human rights. If this persists, violations will only grow around the world. Q&A with Pres Carter at @CarterCenter #FaithInFreedom global forum of #HumanRightsDefenders with focus on @social_rights. pic.twitter.com/ALIdLauKYl

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The US has abandoned its position as a champion of human rights. If this persists, violations will only grow around the world. Q&A with Pres Carter at @CarterCenter #FaithInFreedom global forum of #HumanRightsDefenders with focus on @social_rights . pic.twitter.com/ALIdLauKYl

Ignacio Saiz (@ignacioCESR) July 24, 2018

Carter said the U.S. governments clamp down on the basic rights of our own people following the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001 set a standard that was emulated around the world.

We still have a chance to restore our position as the foremost champion of human rights, but we are not in that position at this moment, Carter said. He warned that if we retain our present position of indifference to human rights violations, we will encourage human rights violations to grow even more rapidly than they have been in the past few years.

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We have abandoned our position as a government to be the champion of human rights, he added.

Check out the remarks beginning at the 41-minute mark in the video above.

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