Carter accepts Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO, NORWAY - Former President Jimmy Carter says he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize with ``a deep sense of gratitude.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> He thanked his wife Rosalyn Tuesday as he accepted the prize in Oslo, Norway. She sat on the front row with the couple&#39;s children and grandchildren. <br> <br> The 78-year-old Carter urged people everywhere to work for peace in a world that has become ``a more dangerous place.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Carter is being honored for his pursuit of peace, health and human rights that began with the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt. Those accords -- but for a formality -- could have won him the prize 24 years ago. He was not nominated in time. <br> <br> Carter is accepting his prize in a world unnerved by the threat of terrorism, and uneasy that a new war in Iraq may erupt if it fails to obey UN Security Council resolutions demanding that it prove it has no weapons of mass destruction. <br> <br> Carter -- a Democrat -- has repeatedly urged President Bush to avoid a war in Iraq by working through the United Nations, and to support weapons inspections in Iraq. <br> <br> But Carter took a broader view in his Nobel speech before Norway&#39;s King Harold the Fifth and hundreds of others, including Carter&#39;s own children and grandchildren. <br> <br> In his words,``War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other&#39;s children.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> He urged respect for the United National as the international forum for solving disputes. And he says the United States -- as the last superpower -- has -- ``not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom.&#39;&#39;