[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 38 (Tuesday, April 12, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 12, 1994]
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                THE EXCITING TRANSITION IN SOUTH AFRICA

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, this great Nation is one of the few 
nations on the planet that is dedicated to the fact that everyone, all 
races and religions, can live together in diversity peacefully. We 
really did adopt Dr. Martin Luther King's warning during the civil 
rights days, that ``Either we will learn to live as brothers and 
sisters or we will perish as fools.''
  Now we are seeing in South Africa another country going from the 
horrible, horrible background of racial apartheid of trying to move to 
racial diversity. It is the most exciting thing in the world to see 
Africans and young Americans wall to wall over there working with the 
millions of people who are out there trying to make this election 
process work.
  Of course, there are many who prefer bullets to ballots. But it is 
our great past that says ballots are better. I think what we want to 
say to the people of South Africa is that no one is going to assess 
guilt for the past, but we are going to hold everyone accountable for 
and responsible to the future. That country has a tremendous future in 
front of it, and let us hope that the elections go on peacefully on 
April 27.

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