[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 264 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 264

  To designate May 14, 1997, and May 14, 1998, as ``National Speak No 
                  Evil Day'', and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 13, 1996

  Mr. Mack (for himself, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Craig, and Mr. Jeffords) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                            on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  To designate May 14, 1997, and May 14, 1998, as ``National Speak No 
                  Evil Day'', and for other purposes.

Whereas words used unfairly, whether expressed through excessive anger, unfair 
        criticism, public and private humiliation, bigoted comments, cruel 
        jokes, or rumors and malicious gossip, traumatize and destroy many 
        lives;
Whereas an unwillingness or inability of many parents to control what the 
        parents say when angry causes the infliction of often irrevocably 
        damaging verbal abuse on the children;
Whereas bigoted words are often used to dehumanize entire religious, racial, and 
        ethnic groups, and inflame hostility in a manner that may lead to 
        physical attacks;
Whereas the spreading of negative, often unfair, untrue, or exaggerated, 
        comments or rumors about others often inflicts irrevocable damage on the 
        victim of the gossip, the damage epitomized in the expression 
        ``character assassination''; and
Whereas the inability of a person to refrain for 24 hours from speaking unkind 
        and cruel words demonstrates a lack of control as striking as the 
        inability of an alcoholic to refrain for 24 hours from drinking liquor: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate designates May 14, 1997, and May 14, 
1998, as ``National Speak No Evil Day''. The Senate requests that the 
President issue a proclamation calling on the people of the United 
States to observe the days with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and 
educational endeavors.
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