[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 104 (Tuesday, August 2, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 2, 1994]
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                         LET US REASON TOGETHER

  (Ms, NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, in dispatching Federal marshals to abortion 
clinics, Attorney General Janet Reno follows a Little Rock precedent 
set by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. School integration was even more 
controversial in 1957 than abortion is in 1994. But President 
Eisenhower knew that the failure to defend constitutional rights in the 
face of violence was the ultimate abdication of Federal responsibility.
  This weekend I went to the Hillcrest Women's Surgi-Center in 
southeast Washington. I had heard nothing like the taunts and 
intolerance I heard there since I was the target during my youthful 
days as a civil rights worker.
  Then as now, controversial constitutional rights were at stake. Then 
as now, honest differences were obscured by the violence of the 
extremists.
  Americans may protest on opposite sides of the road. But let us 
always move to common ground to stop violence, as the Justice 
Department has done.

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