[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18419]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        DEADLY ATTACKS IN PARIS

  (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speaker, this past Friday, the world 
watched in horror the unfolding of the deadliest attack on French soil 
since World War II.
  The attacks in Paris killed 129 people from 26 countries, including 
one American, a young student from California. To all those affected by 
these terrible acts, I offer my deepest sympathies.
  Around the world, tragedies of this scale have become distressingly 
familiar, but to see one happen in a country at peace, a country with 
which the United States has shared such a special relationship since 
our founding days, hits particularly hard.
  Those who carried out these horrific attacks want us to react with 
divisiveness and hate; in fact, they depend on it. They know they 
cannot survive in a world that stands united against them.
  We must, of course, respond to this threat with strength. But we 
cannot forget our compassion toward those in France and those in the 
Middle East fleeing the very same dangers.
  As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once said: ``Darkness cannot drive 
out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only 
love can do that.''

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