[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 183 (Tuesday, November 20, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H9571]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff, Retired Chaplain, U.S. Navy, Washington, 
D.C., offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, we pray, reflect, meditate in different ways, but unite 
in condemnation when hatred rears its ugly head.
  On this date in 1945 we helped convene a court in Nuremberg, 
proclaiming some actions so inhuman that they are crimes against 
humanity itself.
  We condemned the false belief that any humans are less than human: 
``life unworthy of life.''
  Such thinking leads to slaughter, even here at home: dead children in 
their churches, hated for the color of their skin; beatings, killings, 
lynchings that stained our landscape, and our history, with what poets 
called the strange and bitter fruit of bodies hanging from the trees; 
and last month, in a Pittsburgh synagogue, men and women murdered 
because the shooter thought ``all Jews should die.''
  God, we know that words and prayers still matter, when they are 
linked to action, grounded in our Nation's founding vision: that all 
are created equal, with rights to liberty and life, rights and dreams 
we must forever honor, cherish, and protect.
  And may we say, amen.

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