[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 38 (Monday, March 10, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H1683]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God Almighty, yesterday was the 38th anniversary of the historic 
march of civil rights activists in Selma, Alabama. March 7, 1965, 
became known as ``Bloody Sunday.'' Here You awakened this Nation to 
injustice and the desire to live ``in a beloved community of 
diversity.'' A number of women and men from Congress made the march 
this year across Edmund Pettus Bridge, accompanied by spouses and 
surrounded with young people not ready to forget the heroic sacrifices 
made by ordinary people to seek equal justice under the law for all 
citizens.
  Today, O Lord, we pray for all those in powerful positions in 
government and in the courts, that the movement to assure the human 
rights of individuals and free assemblies never ceases.
  Touch human hearts today that Your people may be shaken from all 
indifference and know that what happens to the least in our midst 
affects us all. Shape us into nonviolent instruments who can bring 
about changes in our world that will benefit all. May the religious 
motivation behind such a movement never be forgotten but always give 
You the glory and attribute to You the power now and forever. Amen.

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