[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 53 (Wednesday, March 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3422]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     DIFFERING DEFINITIONS OF SHAME

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, my colleague from the Sixth District of 
Georgia wants to restore a notion of shame and touts the value of shame 
in discouraging public drunkenness, child abuse and encouraging kids to 
do their homework. He continues that through the use of shame, we will 
be able to reassert standards in America's future.
  Now is it not curious that this particular notion of shame could 
seriously be advanced by someone who:
  First, misstates the facts on purpose; second, denigrates women by 
talk of infections; and third, has an ethical cloud over him so big and 
heavy that dewdrops now glisten on his neo-victorian halo.
  Let us get real on the value of shame and as my teacher used to say, 
``The emptiest wagons always clap the loudest.''


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